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Satan's rhetoric : a study of Renaissance demonology / Armando Maggi.

By: Maggi, Armando
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226501329 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Demonology -- History of doctrinesDDC classification: 133.4/2/09 LOC classification: BF1511 | .M34 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.
Contents:
The devils' perverted syllogism : Prierio's De strigimagis -- The word's "ceremonies" : natural and unnatural language according to de Moura's De Ensalmis -- To vomit the name of the morning star : creation as metaphor in Menghi and Polidori's Thesaurus exorcismorum -- Walking in the garden of Purgatory : the discourse of the mind in the probation of St. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi -- To dream insomnia : human mind and demonic enlightenment in Cardano's Metoposcopia -- The epic triumph of the church, its melancholy, and the persistence of sodom : a conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.

The devils' perverted syllogism : Prierio's De strigimagis -- The word's "ceremonies" : natural and unnatural language according to de Moura's De Ensalmis -- To vomit the name of the morning star : creation as metaphor in Menghi and Polidori's Thesaurus exorcismorum -- Walking in the garden of Purgatory : the discourse of the mind in the probation of St. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi -- To dream insomnia : human mind and demonic enlightenment in Cardano's Metoposcopia -- The epic triumph of the church, its melancholy, and the persistence of sodom : a conclusion.

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