Table of Contents

Preface, Abbreviations, Introduction J. B. Trapp

1. Hermes Trismegistus

2. Ficino’s Pimander and the Asclepius

3. Hermes Trismegistus and Magic

4. Ficino’s Natural Magic

5. Pico della Mirandola and Cabalist Magic

6. Pseudo-Dionysius and the Theology of a Christian Magus

7. Cornelius Agrippa’s Survey of Renaissance Magic

8. Renaissance Magic and Science

9. Against Magic: (1) Theological Objections; (2) The Humanist Tradition

10. Religious Hermetism in the Sixteenth Century

11. Giordano Bruno: First Visit to Paris

12. Giordano Bruno in England: The Hermetic Reform

13. Giordano Bruno in England: The Hermetic Philosophy

14. Giordano Bruno and the Cabala

15. Giordano Bruno: Heroic Enthusiast and Elizabethan

16. Giordano Bruno: Second Visit to Paris

17. Giordano Bruno in Germany

18. Giordano Bruno: Last Published Work

19. Giordano Bruno: Return to Italy

20. Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella

21. After Hermes Trismegistus was Dated

22. Hermes Trismegistus and the Fludd Controversies.

Index

About the Author

Dame Frances Yates (1899-1981). Brought about the revival of interest in the historical role of the occult sciences.

Reviews

'This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it.' -- Hugh Trevor-Roper, The New Statesman 'Explodes the idea that the intellectual foundations of the Renaissance were exclusively logical and coherent, and lets back the mysterious into history' -- BBC History Magazine