Satan's Rhetoric

Acknowledgments

Words Beclouding the Eyes: An Introduction

ONE
The Devil's Perverted Syllogism:
Prierio's De Strigimagis

TWO
The Word's "Ceremonies": Natural and Unnatural Langauge
according to de Moura's De Ensalmis

THREE
To Vomit the Name of the Morning Star:
Creation as Metaphor in Menghi and Polidori's
Thesaurus Exorcismorum

FOUR
Walking in the Garden of Purgatory: The Discourse of the
Mind in the Probation of St. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

FIVE
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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Index