In the Company of Demons
Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
232 pages, 6 x 9
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2006
Cloth $40.00
ISBN: 9780226501307
Published May 2006
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226501314
Published June 2008
Preface: Bodies of Metaphors
Introduction: Bodies of Desire
1. To Read the Body of a Monster
Exegesis and Witchcraft in Strix by Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola
2. To Recall the Spirits' Past
Memory and Demonology in Strozzi Cigogna's Palace of Marvels and of the Great Enchantments of the Spirits and of the Entire Nature
3. "The Shadows and Their Beloved Bodies" Medicine, Philosophy of Love, and Demonology in Pompeo della Barba's Interpretation of a Platonic Sonnet
4. What Does Human Mean?
Beings against Nature in Ludovico Maria Sinistrari's Demoniality A Conclusion: Bodies of Salvation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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