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"Maggi gives us an original and penetrating interpretation of Renaissance demonology, with a brilliant analysis and with a challenge to the reader for deeper thoughts on a theme that attracts scholars, but has still some new views." - Michaela Valente, Renaissance Quarterly "In his new and fascinating book, Armando Maggi tries to understand the strange world of Renaissance demonology without dwelling on its obvious absurdities.... His aim is not to psychoanalyse but to sympathize, and his method is to enter into the spirit (so to speak) of this strange world." - Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement"
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In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, demigods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. But Armando Maggi, an expert in Renaissance demonology, argues throughout "In the Company of Demons" that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies.Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, Maggi reveals that these demons speak through their sudden and striking appearances - their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted. But the core trait of these spirits is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as harbingers or warnings to protect us. It comes as no surprise then that when spiritual beings distort the natural world to communicate, it is vital that we begin to listen.
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- VerlagUniversity of Chicago Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2006
- ISBN 10 0226501302
- ISBN 13 9780226501307
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In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
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University Of Chicago Press, 2006
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ISBN 13: 9780226501307
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In the Company of Demons. Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance.
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Original publisher's light-blue cloth hardback, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: xij, 244pp., 4 contributions, notes & references, foreword, introduction, conclusion, bibliography, index, table of contents. Very fine copy. Artikel-Nr. 187159
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In the Company of Demons. Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance.
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The University of Chicago Press; Chicago and London, 2006
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ISBN 13: 9780226501307
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Zustand: Wie neu. XI; 244 Seiten; 23,5 cm. Sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar. - Englisch. - Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. But with In the Company of Demons, the world's leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies. Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, we find that these spirits or demons speak through their sudden and striking appearances- their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted. The form of the body, Maggi explains, relies on the spirits' knowledge of their human interlocutors' pasts. But their core trait is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as harbingers or warnings to protect us. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : PREFACE Bodies of Metaphors ----- INTRODUCTION Bodies of Desire I ----- TO READ THE BODY OF A MONSTER ----- Exegesis and Witchcraft in Strix by Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola ----- TO RECALL THE SPIRITS' PAST ----- Memory and Demonology in Strozzi Cigogna's Palace of Marvels and of the Great Enchantments of the Spirits and of the Entire Nature ----- "THE SHADOWS AND THEIR BELOVED BODIES" ----- Medicine, Philosophy of Love, and Demonology in Pompeo della Barba's Interpretation of a Platonic Sonnet ----- WHAT DOES HUMAN MEAN? ----- Beings against Nature in Ludovico Maria Sinistran's Demoniality ----- A CONCLUSION Bodies of Salvation ----- NOTES ----- BIBLIOGRAPHY ----- INDEX. ISBN 0226501302 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalleinen mit farb. illustr. Schutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 1214808
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