03125nam a22003614a 4500 ebr10270878 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070702s2007 ne sb 001 0 eng 2007027417 9789004160989 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004160981 (hardback : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)303637152 BF1593 .Z36 2007eb 133.4/309409024 22 Zambelli, Paola. White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance [electronic resource] / by Paola Zambelli. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. x, 282 p. Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 125 Subtitle from cover. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Introduction : must we really re-appropriate magic? -- White magic, black magic. Continuity in the definition of natural magic from Pico to Della Porta : astrology and magic in Italy and north of the Alps ; Scholastic and humanist views of Hermetism : witchcraft, "natural magic", Trithemius' magic and Agrippa's critical turn of mind (Medieval Hermetic antecedents ; Ficino and Pico ; Hermetists in Germany) ; Magic, pseudepigraphy, prophecies and forgeries in Trithemius' manuscripts : from Cusanus to Bovelles? (To publish or not to publish? ; Trithemius' passion for magic ; Trithemius as a prophet or prognosticator ; Magical authorities and forgeries ; Blessings and exorcisms ; Trithemius and his German contemporaries ; Ancient and medieval occult sources ; Denunciations and self-defences ; Socratism and Cusanian ignorance or simplicity) ; Appendix I : Trithemius' bibliography for necromancers -- Agrippa as an author of prohibited books. Agrippa of Nettesheim as a critical Magus ; Magic and radical Reformation in Agrippa of Nettesheim ; Appendix II : recent studies on Agrippa -- Bruno as a reader of prohibited books. The initiates and the idiot : conjectures on some Brunian sources (Bruno as a reader of the necromancers' 'theoricae' ; Bruno and the Paracelsian revival ; Bruno as a reader of Lullian and pseudo-Lullian works) ; Hermetism and magic in Giordano Bruno : some interpretations from Tocco to Corsano, from Yates to Ciliberto (F.A. Yates, D.P. Walker and other scholars in the Warburg Institute ; Renaissance magic as seen by Yates and Walker ; Magic tricks of Professor Ciliberto) ; Appendix III : a Nolan before Bruno : Momus and Socratism in the Renaissance. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Magic. Renaissance. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 125. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10270878 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 7978 7978