Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix
Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix
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Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix
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Iter Press
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Renaissance and Reformation, 2019-10, Vol.42 (4), p.17-40
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English
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In 1522–23, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola was involved in trials that executed ten accused witches. Soon after the trials, he published Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum, a meticulous defence of witch-hunting. A humanistic dialogue as heavily dependent on classical literature and philosophy as on Scholastic demonology, Strix is unusually c...
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Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2394937798
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2394937798
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0034-429X
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2293-7374
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10.7202/1068573ar
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