Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius | Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art (essay date 1857)
Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art (essay date 1857)
SOURCE: "Cornelius Agrippa-Doctor, Knight, and Magician," in Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, Vol. IX, No. XLIX, January 1857, pp. 70-79.
[Here, an anonymous reviewer provides an overview of Henry Morley's Life of Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim (1856), favorably commenting on several of Agrippa's works.]
Where Agrippa is known, he is known as a magician. In the sixteenth century, everybody knew that he was in commerce with the devil, to whom he had sold his soul. Charitable Butler only says that
Agrippa kept a Stygian pug
I'th garb and habit of a dog,
That was his tutor, and the cur
Read to the occult philosopher,
And taught him subtly to maintain
All other sciences are vain.
But Southey copies a monkish tale describing his study:
The...
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