In the Company of Demons
Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Introduction: Bodies of Desire
1. To Read the Body of a Monster
Exegesis and Witchcraft in Strix by Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola
2. To Recall the Spirits’ Past
Memory and Demonology in Strozzi Cigogna’s Palace of Marvels and of the Great Enchantments of the Spirits and of the Entire Nature
3. "The Shadows and Their Beloved Bodies"
4. What Does Human Mean?
Beings against Nature in Ludovico Maria Sinistrari’s Demoniality
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“In his new and fascinating book, Armando Maggi tries to understand the strange world of Renaissance demonology without dwelling on its obvious absurdities. . . . His aim is not to psychoanalyse but to sympathize, and his method is to enter into the spirit (so to speak) of this strange world.”
“Maggi gives us an original and penetrating interpretation of Renaissance demonology, with a brilliant analysis and with a challenge to the reader for deeper thoughts on a theme that attracts scholars, but still has some new views.”
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