In the Company of Demons. Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance. - MAGGI, ARMANDO

unnatural beings, love, and identity in the Italian Renaissance

KORTE INHOUD

In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, demi-gods, 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, Mag.

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2006Uitgever: University of Chicago Press244 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226501302ISBN-13: 9780226501307