Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

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Hamilton, A. C. "Sidney and Agrippa." The Review of English Studies VII, No. 26 (April 1956): 151-57.

Demonstrates that Agrippa's Of the Vanity and Uncertainty of Arts and Sciences "provides a framework within which Sidney attacks the vanity of the arts and sciences and defends the art of poetry."

Judson, Alexander C. "Cornelius Agrippa and Henry Vaughan." Modern Language Notes XLI, no. 3 (March 1926): 178-81.

Discusses the influence of Agrippa's ideas on Vaughan's poem "The Ass."

Kozicki, Henry. "Browning, Pauline, and Cornelius Agrippa: The Protagonist as Magus." Victorian Poetry 28, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 17-38.

Asserts that "Browning knew occultist thought… and that [Agrippa's] Occulta provides the conceptual underpinning of Pauline."

Yates, Frances A. "Giordano Bruno: The Secret of Shadows." In her The Art of Memory, 199-230. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Briefly explores Agrippa's On the Vanity and Uncertainty of Arts and Sciences as one of the main sources for Bruno's De umbris idearum (1582).

——. "Renaissance Philosophers in Elizabethan England: John Dee and Giordano Bruno." In History & Imagination: Essays in Honor of H. R. Trevor-Roper, edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Valerie Pearl, and Blair Worden, pp. 104-14. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981.

Compares the attitudes of Dee and Bruno toward Agrippa's Occult Philosophy.

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