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Primary Sources
Works by Agrippa
- Opera, 2 volumes, Lyon, per Beringos fratres, [n.d.].
[The imprint of this edition is false, since the Bering firm had
ceased publishing several decades before. Zambelli (1972:
149–50) suggested attributing it to the publisher Tommaso
Guarino of Basel in 1580]. Repr. Hildesheim-New York: Olms, 1970. (Scholar)
- Apologia adversus calumnias propter declamationem De vanitate
scientiarum et excellentia verbi Dei, sibi per aliquos Lovanienses
theologos intentatas. Querela super calunnia ob eandem Declamationem
per aliquos sceleratissimos sycophantas apud Caesaream maiestatem
nefarie ac proditorie illata, [n.p.], 1533.
- De arte chemica (On Alchemy), edited by Sylvain Matton,
with an Seventeenth-Century English Translation, Paris and Milan:
S.É.H.A and Arché, 2014.
- De beatissimae Annae monogamia, ac unico puerperio
propositiones abbreviatae et articulatae iuxta disceptationem Iacobi
Fabri Stapulensis in libro De tribus et una … Defensio
propositionum praenarratarum contra quendam Dominicastrum earundem
impugnatorem … Quaedam epistolae super eadem materia atque
super lite contra eiusdem ordinis haereticorum magistro habita,
[n.p.], 1534.
- De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium atque de
excellentia verbi Dei declamatio invectiva, [Antwerp, 1530], in
Opera, II, pp. 1–314. (Scholar)
- De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, edited by
Roland Antonioli and Charles Béné, translated by Odette
Sauvage, Geneva: Droz, 1990.
- De occulta philosophia libri tres, [n.p. (Cologne)],
1533. Photomechanic reprint, edited by Karl Anton Nowotny, Graz:
Akademish Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1967. (Scholar)
- De occulta philosophia libri tres, edited by Vittoria
Perrone Compagni, Leiden and Cologne: Brill, 1992.
- De originali peccato declamatio, in Opera, II, pp.
550–65.
- De sacramento matrimonii, in Opera, II, pp.
536–49.
- De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum, edited and
translated by Vittoria Perrone Compagni, Ermetismo e cristianesimo
in Agrippa. Il “De triplici ratione cognoscendi
Deum”, Florence: Polistampa, 2005. (Scholar)
- Dehortatio gentilis theologiae, in Opera, II, pp.
482–91.
- Dialogus de homine, edited by Paola Zambelli,
Rinascimento, II s., 5 (1965), App. I, pp.
295–304. (Scholar)
- Dialogus de vanitate scientiarum et ruina christianae
relligionis, edited by Paola Zambelli, Rinascimento, II s., 5
(1965), pp. 249–94.
- Expostulatio super Expositione sua in librum De verbo mirifico
cum Ioanne Catilineti, in Opera, II, pp. 492–98.
- In artem brevem Raymundi Lullii commentaria, in Opera,
II, pp. 315–451.
Other Primary Sources
- Aristotle, De anima, in Barnes, Jonathan (ed.), The
Complete Works of Aristotle, I, Princeton: Princenton University
Press, 1984.
- Augustine, Aurelius, The Literal Meaning of Genesis,
translated by John H. Taylor, New York: Newman, 1982.
- Erasmus, Praise of Folly, in Grant, John N (ed.),
Collected Works, 27, Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1986.
- Tabula smaragdina, edited in Julius Ruska, Tabula
smaragdina. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Hermetischen
Literatur, Heidelberg: Winter, 1926.
- Ficino, Marsilio, Three Books of Life, edited and and
translated by Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark, Binghamton: Medieval
and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989.
- Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica. The Greek Corpus Hermeticum
and the Latin Asclepius, translated by Brian P. Copenhaver,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Giorgio Veneto, Francesco, De harmonia mundi, Venice:
Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 1525.
- Lambert, François, De sacro coniugio commentarius,
Nuremberg: Petrius, 1525.
- Lazzarelli, Lodovico, Crater Hermetis, edited in Claudio
Moreschini, Storia dell’ermetismo cristiano, Brescia:
Morcelliana, 2000, pp. 303–39.
- Nogarola, Isotta, Dialogue on Equal or Inequal Sin of Adam and
Eve, in Complete Writings, edited and translated by
Margaret L. King and Diana Robin, Chicago and London: Chicago
University Press, 2003, pp. 145–58.
- Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco, De rerum
praenotione, Strasbourg: Ioannes Knoblochus, 1506.
- –––, Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium ac
veritatis christianae disciplinae, s.l.: Ioannes Maciochium,
1520.
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conclusiones, edited and
translated by Stephen A. Farmer, Syncretism in the West:
Pico’s 900 Theses (1486), Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance
Texts and Studies, 1998. (Scholar)
- –––, Disputationes adversus astrologiam
divinatricem, edited and translated by Eugenio Garin, Torino:
Aragno, 2004.
- –––, Heptaplus, edited and translated
by Eugenio Garin, Firenze: Vallecchi: 1942, pp. 167–383.
- –––, Oration on the Dignity of Man,
translated by Francesco Borghesi, Michael Papio and Massimo Riva,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012.
- Plato, Symposium, in John M. Cooper (ed.), Plato:
Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997, pp.
457–505.
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History, translated by Henry T.
Riley and John Bostock, London and New York: Bell,
1893–1890.
- Reuchlin, Johannes, De arte cabalistica, Hagenau: Thomas
Anshelmus, 1517.
- –––, De verbo mirifico, Basel: Johannes
Amerbach, 1494.
- Ricius, Paulus, In cabalam Isagoge, Pavia: Jacob
Burgofrancho, 1510.
- –––, Talmudica novissime in latinum versa
periocunda commentariola, Augsburg: Grimm and Wirsung, 1519.
- Trithemius, Johannes, Epistolarum familiarium libri duo,
in Marquand Freher (ed.), Johannis Trithemii Opera historica,
p. 2, Frankfurt: Wechel, 1601, pp. 438–504.
Selected Studies
- Backus, Irena, 1983, “Agrippa on ‘Human Knowledge of God’ and ‘Human Knowledge of the External World”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 65(2): 147–59. doi:10.1515/agph.1983.65.2.147 (Scholar)
- Blamires, Alcuin, 1997, The Case for Women in Medieval Culture, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Bowen, Barbara C., 1972, “Cornelius Agrippa’s De
Vanitate: Polemic or Paradox?” Bibliothèque
d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 34(2): 249–56. (Scholar)
- Celenza, Christopher S., 2001, “The Search for Ancient
Wisdom in Early Modern Europe: Reuchlin and the Late Ancient Esoteric
Paradigm”, The Journal of Religious History, 25(2):
115–33. doi:10.1111/1467-9809.00124 (Scholar)
- Copenhaver, Brian P., 1988, “Natural Philosophy/Astrology
and Magic”, in The Cambridge History of Renaissance
Philosophy, Charles B. Schmitt et al. (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 264–300. (Scholar)
- Dagron, Tristan, 2005, “Secrets de la nature et
mystères divins: Corneille Agrippa lecteur de Pic”, in
D’un principe philosophique à un genre
littéraire: les “Secrets”, Dominique de
Courcelles (ed.), Paris: Champion, 105–32. (Scholar)
- Geri, Lorenzo, 2020, “La lezione di Luciano contro gli
Scolastici. Serio ludere e polemica religiosa negli umanisti
germanici (1511–1520)”, in Serio ludere. Sagesse et
dérision à l’âge de l’Humanisme,
Hélène Casanova-Robin et al. (eds.), Paris: Garnier,
299–320. (Scholar)
- Gurashi, Dario, 2020, “Religione e ideologia nel
giovane Agrippa: appunti sulla vocazione intellettuale”,
Mediterranea: International Journal on the Transfer of
Knowledge, 5: 153–192. (Scholar)
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J., 2009, “Better than Magic. Cornelius
Agrippa and Lazzarellian Hermetism”, Magic, Ritual, and
Witchcraft, 4: 1–25. (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, “Heinrich Cornelius
Agrippa”, in The Occult World, Christopher Partridge
(ed.), London, New York: Routledge, 92–99. (Scholar)
- Hieatt, A. Kent, 1980, “Eve as Reason in a Tradition of Allegorical Interpretation of the Fall”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 43: 21–26. doi:10.2307/751197 (Scholar)
- Hutton, Sarah, 2003, “Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and
Classical Imitation”, A Companion to English Renaissance
Literature and Culture, Michael Hattaway (ed.), Oxford:
Blackwell, 44–57. (Scholar)
- Jordan, Constance, 1990, Renaissance Feminism. Literary Text and Political Models, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Keefer, Michael H., 1988, “Agrippa’s Dilemma: Hermetic
Rebirth and the Ambivalences of De Vanitate and De
Occulta Philosophia”, Renaissance Quarterly,
41(4): 614–53. doi:10.2307/2861884 (Scholar)
- Korkowski, Eugene N., 1976, “Agrippa as Ironist”,
Neophilologus, 60(4): 594–607.
doi:10.1007/bf01512650 (Scholar)
- Lechner, Gerhard, 2020, “Die Transmigration bei Agrippa von Nettesheim”, Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, 67: 88–112. (Scholar)
- Lehrich, Christopher I., 2003, The Language of Demons and
Angels. Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy, Leiden and
Boston: Brill. (Scholar)
- Mañas Núñez, Manuel, 2003, “El
De vanitate scientiarum de Cornelio Agrippa: Vituperio de las
ciencias y Elogio del asno”, Revista de Estudios
Latinos, 3: 183–203. (Scholar)
- Mantovani, Dario (ed.), 2013, Almum Studium Papiense, Storia
dell’Università di Pavia, 2 vols, Milan: Cisalpino
Monduzzo. (Scholar)
- Müller-Jahncke, Wolf-Dieter, 1975, “The Attitude of
Agrippe von Nettesheim (1486–1535) towards Alchemy”,
Ambix, 22: 134–50. doi:10.1179/amb.1975.22.2.134 (Scholar)
- Naudé, Gabriel, 1644, Advis pour dresser une
biliothèque, Paris: Rolet le duc. (Scholar)
- Nauert, Charles G., Jr, 1965, Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance Thought, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, Humanism and Culture of
Renaissance Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Newman, Barbara, 1993, “Renaissance Feminism and Esoteric
Theology: The Case of Cornelius Agrippa”, Viator, 24:
337–56. doi:10.1484/j.viator.2.301253 (Scholar)
- Newman, William, 1982, “Thomas Vaughan as an Interpreter of
Agrippa von Nettesheim”, Ambix, 29(3): 125–40.
doi:10.1179/amb.1982.29.3.125 (Scholar)
- Perrone Compagni, Vittoria, 1992, “Introduction”.
(translated by Angus Clark), in Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheim,
De occulta philosophia libri tres, Leiden, New
York and Cologne: Brill, 1–50. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Dispersa intentio: Alchemy, Magic and Scepticism in Agrippa”, Early Science and Medicine, 5(2): 160–77. doi:10.1163/157338200x00164 (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, “Astrologia e filosofia occulta in Agrippa”, Rinascimento, II s., 41: 93–111. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, Ermetismo e Cristianesimo in
Agrippa. Il “De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum”,
Florence: Polistampa. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, “L’innocenza di Eva.
Retorica e teologia nel De nobilitate foeminei sexus di
Agrippa”, Bruniana & Campanelliana, 12:
59–80.
- –––, 2007, “Il De occulta
philosophia di Cornelio Agrippa. Parole chiave: uomo-microcosmo,
prisca theologia, cabala, magia”, Bruniana &
Campanelliana, 13(2): 429–48. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, “Tutius ignorare quam
scire: Agrippa and Scepticism”. (translated by Crofton
Black), in Renaissance Scepticisms, Gianni Paganini and
José R. Maia Neto (eds), Dordrecht: Springer,
91–110. (Scholar)
- Popkin, Richard H., 2003, The History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Bayle, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Prost, August, 1882, Les sciences et les arts occultes au xvi
e siècle: Corneille Agrippa. Sa vie et ses œuvres, 2
vols, Paris: Champion. (Scholar)
- Putnik, Noel, 2013, “To Be Born (Again) from God: Scriptural
Obscurity as a Theological Way Out for Cornelius Agrippa”, in
“Obscurity in Medieval Texts”, Lucie Dolezalová et
al. (eds.), Medium Aevum quotidianum, 30: 145–156. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “Agrippa's Cosmic Ladder:
Building a World with Words in the De occulta
Philosophia”, in Lux in Tenebris. The Visual and the
Symbolic in the Western Esotericism, Peter J. Forshaw (ed.),
Leiden: Brill, 81–102. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, Obtinere Mentem Divinam: The
Spiritual Anthropology of Cornelius Agrippa, Ph.D. Dissertation,
Medieval Studies Department, Central European University,
Budapest. (Scholar)
- Secret, François, 1990, “L’originalité
du De Occulta Philosophia”, Charis. Archives de
l’Unicorne, 2: 57–87.
- –––, 1992, Hermétisme et
Kabbale, Naples: Bibliopolis. (Scholar)
- Schmidt-Biggerman, Wilhelm, 2012, Geschchte der Kristlicher
Kabbala: 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt:
Fromman-Holzoobog. (Scholar)
- Schmitt, Charles B., 1967, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469–1533) and His Critique of Aristotle, The Hague: Nijhoff. (Scholar)
- Van der Poel, Marc, 1997, Cornelius Agrippa, the Humanist Theologian and His Declamations, Leiden, New York and Cologne: Brill. (Scholar)
- Weeks, Andrew, 1993, German Mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen
to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History,
Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
- Zambelli, Paola, 1965, “Cornelio Agrippa. Scritti inediti e dispersi”, Rinascimento, II s., 5: 195–323. (Scholar)
- –––, 1972, “Cornelio Agrippa, Sisto da
Siena e gli inquisitori”, Memorie Doemicane, n.s., 3:
147–64. (Scholar)
- –––, 1976, “Magic and Radical Reformation in Agrippa of Nettesheim”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 39: 69–103. doi:10.2307/751133 (Scholar)
- –––, 1992, “Cornelius Agrippa, ein
kritischer Magus”, in August Buck (ed.), Die Okkulten
Wissenschaften in der Renaissance (Wolfenbütteler
Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung, Bd 12), Wiesbaden: Otto
Harrassowitz, 65–89. (Scholar)
- –––, 1997, “Mariage et lutheranisme
d’après Henri Corneille Agrippa”, Nouvelles de
la République des Lettres, 1: 79–102. (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Continuità nella
definizione della magia naturale da Ficino a Della Porta”, in
La geografia dei saperi. Studi in memoria di Dino Pastine,
Domenico Ferraro and Gianna Gigliotti (eds.), Florence: Le Lettere,
23–41. (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, White Magic, Black Magic, in the
European Renaissance, Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Scholar)
- Zika, Charles, 2003, Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Scholar)