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Music in Renaissance Magic
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Pages: 318
Authors: Gary Tomlinson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philos
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Ioan P. Culianu
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneou
Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: John S. Mebane
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three gr
The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music
Language: en
Pages: 732
Authors: Iain Fenlon
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Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, i
Marsilio Ficino
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Angela Voss
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-12-19 - Publisher: North Atlantic Books

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Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astr