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<p><b>A revelatory new account of the magus—the learned magician—and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe.</b><br><br>In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixte
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- Author
- Anthony Grafton, Moshe Idel
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674659735
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Psychology, Western, Renaissance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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