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Author Grafton, Anthony, author.

Title Magus : the art of magic from Faustus to Agrippa / Anthony Grafton.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  133.4309 GRAFTON    Check Shelf
Description 8 unnumberred pages, 289 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Magus Anatomized: The Case of Faustus -- Criticism and Experiment: Medieval Magi -- Power Over Nature: Art, Engineering and Humanism -- The Learned Magus: Pico and Ficino -- Johannes Trithemius: Magic and the Book -- Occult Philosophy in Theory and Practice: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
Language English; some quotations in Latin and Italian.
Subject Faust, -approximately 1540.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.
Magic -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Magic -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Science and magic -- History.
Humanists -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History.
Renaissance.
Renaissance. (CStmoGRI)aat300021140
SCIENCE / History.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535 (OCoLC)fst00053145
Faust, -approximately 1540 (OCoLC)fst01818112
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499 (OCoLC)fst00000258
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494 (OCoLC)fst00006378
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516 (OCoLC)fst00093029
Humanists -- Books and reading (OCoLC)fst00963545
Magic (OCoLC)fst01005468
Renaissance (OCoLC)fst01094518
Science and magic (OCoLC)fst01108531
Europe (OCoLC)fst01245064
Chronological Term To 1599
Genre/Form History (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780674659735 (hardcover)
0674659732 (hardcover)
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