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Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex
Volume 1
Series: - Heterodoxia Iberica, Volume: 6.1
Martín Del Río (1551-1608) was a remarkably learned Jesuit scholar. His prolific output includes six volumes of
Investigations into Magic which sought to be the last word on magic, witchcraft, and allied subjects such as divination and superstition, and a detailed manual of advice for judges and confessors engaged in combatting what was seen at the time as a dangerous threat to the spiritual life of humanity in this world and the next. First published in 1599-1600,
Investigations was heralded as a major contribution to the armoury of the Counter-Reformation, and went through several editions, the last appearing in 1747.
Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Ph.D. (1994), FRHS, FSAC Scotland, is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. He has widely published on classical subjects and occult sciences, as well as translations including
Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).
José Manuel García Valverde, Ph.D. (2004), University of Seville, is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy as well as Greek Classical Thought. He has published critical editions, translations and many articles on the history of Aristotelianism, including Giacomo Zabarella. De rebus naturalibus (Brill, 2015) and Gómez Pereira’s Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).
José Manuel García Valverde, Ph.D. (2004), University of Seville, is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy as well as Greek Classical Thought. He has published critical editions, translations and many articles on the history of Aristotelianism, including Giacomo Zabarella. De rebus naturalibus (Brill, 2015) and Gómez Pereira’s Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).
"This is a must-have for the scholar of witchcraft." - Lukas K. Pokorny,
University of Vienna, in:
Religious Studies Review 48.4
Introduction
Note on the Latin Text
Book 1: On Magic in General, and on Natural Magic and Artificial Magic in Particular
1 Superstition and Its [various] types
2 Magic, Its Types and the Different Words for ‘Magician’
3 Natural Magic, or the Magic Which Relates to the Created Universe
4 Instrumental Magic
5 To Which Type of Magic Should One Assign the Technique of Making Gold, Known as ‘Alchemy’?
Bibliography
Index
Note on the Latin Text
Defence or Apologia
Book 1: On Magic in General, and on Natural Magic and Artificial Magic in Particular
1 Superstition and Its [various] types
2 Magic, Its Types and the Different Words for ‘Magician’
3 Natural Magic, or the Magic Which Relates to the Created Universe
4 Instrumental Magic
5 To Which Type of Magic Should One Assign the Technique of Making Gold, Known as ‘Alchemy’?
Bibliography
Index
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