In the company of demons: unnatural beings, love, and identity in the Italian Renaissance
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1. Verfasser: Maggi, Armando (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2006
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
To read the body of a monster -- To recall the spirits past -- The shadows and their beloved bodies -- What does human mean?
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 244 pages)
ISBN:0226501299
9780226501291

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