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In the Company of Demons (Paperback)
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In the Company of Demons (Paperback)
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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.
Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance
culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of
Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo
della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, we find that these
spirits or demons speak through their sudden and striking
appearances--their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted.
The form of the body, Maggi explains, relies on the spirits'
knowledge of their human interlocutors' pasts. But their core trait
is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as
harbingers or warnings to protect us. It comes as no surprise then
that when spiritual beings distort the natural world to
communicate, it is vital that we begin to listen.
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