Corneille Agrippa Sa Vie et ses Oeuvres Prost Paperback 9781108027557 Volume 1

Corneille AgrippaSa Vie et ses Oeuvres\nAuthor(s): Auguste Prost\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108027557, 978-1108027557\nSynopsis\nDescribed by one modern scholar as a 'classic biography' of Agrippa, Prost's two-volume work [tel] charts the life of one of the most renowned humanists of Renaissance Europe. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim [tel] was a prolific author, best known for two popular, significant, and contradictory books: De occulta philosophia libri tres and De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium. Auguste Prost [tel] established his reputation as an antiquarian and a historian of the French city of Metz. The first volume includes a comprehensive introduction to the occult arts and sciences, addressing their geographical and philosophical origins. In broad strokes, it covers the life and works of Agrippa before turning to specific periods in his life when he t.