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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... stories and theories on spirits, demons, and angels. Do not read it in hopes that you may find an informative, and flat, overview of this cultural issue. Instead, similar to my earlier Satan's Rhetoric on the idiom of fallen angels ...
... stories and theories on spirits, demons, and angels. Do not read it in hopes that you may find an informative, and flat, overview of this cultural issue. Instead, similar to my earlier Satan's Rhetoric on the idiom of fallen angels ...
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... Story of the Evil Spirit in Love with a Young Man + Infinite are the evil spirits that roam through the created world , the famous Renaissance demonologist Girolamo Menghi writes in Compendium of the Art of Exorcisms ( Compendio dell ...
... Story of the Evil Spirit in Love with a Young Man + Infinite are the evil spirits that roam through the created world , the famous Renaissance demonologist Girolamo Menghi writes in Compendium of the Art of Exorcisms ( Compendio dell ...
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... story ” of a sixteen - year - old boy of Mantua , which we find in chapter of the second book of the Compendium . In this part of his work , Menghi examines the existence of the " familiar spirits ” ( spiriti famigliari ) , devils ...
... story ” of a sixteen - year - old boy of Mantua , which we find in chapter of the second book of the Compendium . In this part of his work , Menghi examines the existence of the " familiar spirits ” ( spiriti famigliari ) , devils ...
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... story 11 While I ( this religious says ) lived in the aforementioned city of Mantua , there was a young man of the age of sixteen , who was the brother of a friar of ours ( and he told me his name ) . A familiar spirit was so in love ...
... story 11 While I ( this religious says ) lived in the aforementioned city of Mantua , there was a young man of the age of sixteen , who was the brother of a friar of ours ( and he told me his name ) . A familiar spirit was so in love ...
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... story truly shocked me . When this young man left , that demon followed him in the form of a servant . I saw him walk around my room , but I didn't realize he was a diabolical spirit . ' 13 A first crucial aspect of this extraordinary ...
... story truly shocked me . When this young man left , that demon followed him in the form of a servant . I saw him walk around my room , but I didn't realize he was a diabolical spirit . ' 13 A first crucial aspect of this extraordinary ...
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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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