TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maggi,Armando
TI  - In the company of demons: unnatural beings, love, and identity in the Italian Renaissance 
SN  - 9780226501291 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BF1511 .M335 2006eb
U1  - 133.4/2094509031 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Devil
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Cults
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Demonen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Identiteit
KW  - Bijgeloof
KW  - Christendom
KW  - Italië
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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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