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Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

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Martín Del Río (1551-1608) was a remarkably learned Jesuit scholar. His prolific output includes six volumes of Investigations into Magic which sought to be the last word on magic, witchcraft, and ...
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Martín Del Río (1551-1608) was a remarkably learned Jesuit scholar. His prolific output includes six volumes of Investigations into Magic which sought to be the last word on magic, witchcraft, and allied subjects such as divination and superstition, and a detailed manual of advice for judges and confessors engaged in combatting what was seen at the time as a dangerous threat to the spiritual life of humanity in this world and the next. First published in 1599-1600, Investigations was heralded as a major contribution to the armoury of the Counter-Reformation, and went through several editions, the last appearing in 1747.
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Price: $192.00
Pages: 446
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Heterodoxia Iberica
Publication Date: 17 June 2022
ISBN: 9789004441545
Format: Hardcover
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"This is a must-have for the scholar of witchcraft." - Lukas K. Pokorny, University of Vienna, in: Religious Studies Review 48.4
Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Ph.D. (1994), FRHS, FSAC Scotland, is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. He has widely published on classical subjects and occult sciences, as well as translations including Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).

José Manuel García Valverde, Ph.D. (2004), University of Seville, is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy as well as Greek Classical Thought. He has published critical editions, translations and many articles on the history of Aristotelianism, including Giacomo Zabarella. De rebus naturalibus (Brill, 2015) and Gómez Pereira’s Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).