From Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm to Picatrix: How an Arabic Book of Astral Magic Entered Medieval Europe
The book now called Picatrix is often introduced as a mysterious medieval grimoire, but that description hides the most important fact about it. The Latin…
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Marsilio Ficino’s Three Books on Life: Melancholy, Planetary Music, and the Boundaries of Renaissance Magic
Marsilio Ficino’s Three Books on Life is one of the strangest and most revealing works of the Italian Renaissance because it refuses to stay inside…