Magus : The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa / Anthony Grafton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grafton, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanists--Books and reading--Europe--History.

Humanists.

Magic--Europe--History--16th century.

Magic.

Magic--Europe--History--To 1500.

Faust, -approximately 1540.

Faust.

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni.

Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.

Ficino, Marsilio.

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.

Trithemius, Johannes.

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

English; some quotations in Latin and Italian.

Summary:

Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: The Magus Anatomized: The Case of Faustus

Chapter One: Criticism and Experiment: Medieval Magi

Chapter Two: Power over Nature: Art, Engineering, and Humanism

Chapter Three: The Learned Magus: Pico and Ficino

Chapter Four: Johannes Trithemius: Magic and the Book

Chapter Five: Occult Philosophy in Theory and Practice: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-674-29511-0

0-674-29512-9