Hunting Secrets
Giovan Battista Della Porta and the Invention of Experimental Magic
- A cura di:
- Donato Verardi,
The volume collects the proceedings of the conference held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice within the EU-funded MSCA project SECRETS. The volume investigates Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Magia naturalis (1589) as a cornerstone of early modern knowledge. Adopting a multidisci-plinary approach—from experimental science and epistemology to art, music, and gender—the contributions explore the complex “reform of magic” imple-mented by Della Porta. The essays analyze the work’s experimental back-ground, its use of ancient sources, and its reception in the seventeenth century. This collection offers a new perspective on how Magia naturalis re-defined the boundaries of nature and magic at the dawn of the modern age.
- Parole chiave:
- Giovan Battista Della Porta,
- Magia naturalis,
- Natural Magic,
- Experi-mental Science,
- History of Knowledge,
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0836-9
- Collana: Knowledge and its Histories
- Comitato scientifico
- Lingua: English
- Argomento: Filosofia
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3625-1181
Donato Verardi
Giovan Battista Della Porta and the Invention of Experimental Magic: Collaborative Empiricism and the Dialectic of Disclosure and Secrecy- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.9-24
William Eamon
The Wizard of Naples: Science and Celebrity in the Renaissance and Beyond- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.25-44
Sergius Kodera
Fig-bulls, Bull-Cows, and Other Animals: The Vicissitudes of Renaissance Hieroglyphs in Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Natural Magic- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.45-69
Thibaut Rioult
The Secrets of Illusionism in Della Porta’s Natural Magic: Between Science, Mannerism and Magical Traditions- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.71-95
Romana Sammern, Sabrina Jocher
Health and Beauty in Della Porta’s Natural Magic- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.97-113
pp.115-130
Dana Jalobeanu
Making Della Porta a Baconian Philosopher: Magia naturalis in the Context of the English Experimental Philosophy- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.131-161
- Anno di pubblicazione: 2025
- Pagine: 168
- ISBN: 979-12-215-0835-2
- Licenza d'uso: CC BY 4.0
- © 2025 Author(s)
Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
Hunting Secrets
Sottotitolo del libro
Giovan Battista Della Porta and the Invention of Experimental Magic
Curatori
Donato Verardi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
168
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0836-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0835-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0836-9
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0837-6
Collana
Knowledge and its Histories
ISSN della collana
3035-5974
e-ISSN della collana
3035-5923
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