Review: Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
An extended version of my original review for Engelsberg Ideas to mark the publication of Magus in paperback
Sometime in 1506, the Benedictine abbot Johannes Trithemius, stopped at a tavern in the German town of Gelnhausen. There he encountered Doctor Faustus – then going by the name of Georg Sabellicus – h…
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