In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance By Armando Maggi
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press 2006 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0226501302 , 0226501310 | PDF | 1 MB
Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. But with In the Company of Demons, the world’s leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies.
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