The Magus as Renaissance Man

@article{citeulike:971097, abstract = {The facts of the history of magic in early modern Europe are well known. Two observations are, however, not commonly made and appear here to contribute to the discussion of Renaissance magic: (1) the unusual instance of direct contacts which bind French, German, and Italian intellectuals around the year 1500 into a tight network and (2) the widespread, virtually universal disappointment in magic expressed by the magicians themselves. This feature of the intellectual biographies of the magi became a literary commonplace, for example, in Shakespeare and Goethe, and should henceforth be understood as an intrinsic feature of the myth of the magus.}, author = {Borchardt, Frank L. }, citeulike-article-id = {971097}, journal = {Sixteenth Century Journal}, keywords = {16thc, demonology, magic, occult}, number = {1}, pages = {57--76}, posted-at = {2006-12-02 05:19:44}, priority = {0}, title = {The Magus as Renaissance Man}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2541132}, volume = {21}, year = {1990} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:971097 L3 - citeulike-article-id:971097 TI - The Magus as Renaissance Man JF - Sixteenth Century Journal VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 57 EP - 76 N2 - The facts of the history of magic in early modern Europe are well known. Two observations are, however, not commonly made and appear here to contribute to the discussion of Renaissance magic: (1) the unusual instance of direct contacts which bind French, German, and Italian intellectuals around the year 1500 into a tight network and (2) the widespread, virtually universal disappointment in magic expressed by the magicians themselves. This feature of the intellectual biographies of the magi became a literary commonplace, for example, in Shakespeare and Goethe, and should henceforth be understood as an intrinsic feature of the myth of the magus. KW - 16thc KW - demonology KW - magic KW - occult AU - Borchardt, Frank PY - 1990/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2541132 ER -