Corneille Agrippa
Sa Vie et ses Oeuvres

Prost details Agrippa's life and writings, contextualizing his work in the history of, and Renaissance belief in, the occult.

Auguste Prost (Author)

9781108027564, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 May 2011

556 pages
21.6 x 3.1 x 14 cm, 0.7 kg

Described by one modern scholar as a 'classic biography' of Agrippa, Prost's two-volume work (1881–1882) charts the life of one of the most renowned humanists of Renaissance Europe. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) was a prolific author, best known for two popular, significant, and contradictory books: De occulta philosophia libri tres and De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium. Auguste Prost (1817–1896) established his reputation as an antiquarian and a historian of the French city of Metz. Volume 2, covering the period 1520–1535, is organized around Agrippa's travels and teaching across Europe. This volume also includes an appendix, which returns to a range of subjects touched on in the work as a whole, including Agrippa's name, family life, and academic achievements and works. These volumes would greatly interest historians and historiographers of Agrippa and of Renaissance magic and the occult.

5. Agrippa à Cologne, à Genève et à Fribourg. 1520-1524
6. Agrippa à Lyon et à Paris. 1524–1528
7. Agrippa dans les Pay-Bas. 1528–1532
8. Agrippa à Bonn, à Lyon et à Grenoble. 1532–1535
Appendice
Errata.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]