In the company of demons [electronic resource] : unnatural beings, love, and identity in the Italian Renaissance / Armando Maggi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 244 p.)ISBN:- 9780226501291 (electronic bk.)
- 0226501299 (electronic bk.)
- 133.4/2094509031 22
- BF1511 .M335 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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