Corneille Agrippa - Volume 2

Described by one modern scholar as a ''classic biography'' of Agrippa Prost''s two-volume work (18811882) charts the life of one of the most renowned humanists of Renaissance Europe. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (14861535) 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 (18171896) established his reputation as an antiquarian and a historian of the French city of Metz. Volume 2 covering the period 15201535 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.