In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian RenaissanceUniversity of Chicago Press, 12 may 2008 - 257 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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... Augustine says about angels and devils , Menghi in the Compendium writes that “ unlike us , devils are not subject to their bod- ies . On the contrary , their bodies are subject to them . Devils in fact transform women . " them into ...
... Augustine says about angels and devils , Menghi in the Compendium writes that “ unlike us , devils are not subject to their bod- ies . On the contrary , their bodies are subject to them . Devils in fact transform women . " them into ...
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... Augustine confirms that angels “ [ take ] created materials distinct from themselves and us [ e ] them to present us with symbolic representations of God . " 35 Introduction An Analysis of the Evil Spirit in Mantua + The.
... Augustine confirms that angels “ [ take ] created materials distinct from themselves and us [ e ] them to present us with symbolic representations of God . " 35 Introduction An Analysis of the Evil Spirit in Mantua + The.
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Índice
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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 |
Index | 231 |
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