In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian RenaissanceUniversity of Chicago Press, 2006 - 244 páginas 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. 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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... Italian Renaissance / Armando Maggi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. isbn 0-226-50130-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Devil—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500. 2. Renaissance. i. Title. bf1511.m335 2006 ...
... Italian Renaissance / Armando Maggi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. isbn 0-226-50130-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Devil—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500. 2. Renaissance. i. Title. bf1511.m335 2006 ...
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Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance Armando Maggi. contents preface Bodies of Metaphors vii introduction Bodies of Desire 1 1 to read the body of a monster Exegesis and Witchcraft in Strix by Giovan Francesco ...
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Índice
Bodies of Desire | 1 |
To read thebody of a monster Exegesis and Witchcraft in Strix | 25 |
To recall the spirits Past Memory and Demonology in Strozzi Cigognas Palace of Marvels and of the Great Enchantmentsof the Spirits and of the Enti... | 66 |
The shadows and their beloved bodies Medicine Philosophy of Love and Demonology in Pompeo della Barbas Interpretation of a Platonic Sonnet | 104 |
What does human mean? Beings against Nature in Ludovico Maria Sinistraris Demoniality | 139 |
A conclusion Bodies of Salvation | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 219 |
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