Corneille Agrippa by Auguste Prost - 9781108027564

Corneille AgrippaSa Vie et ses Oeuvres\nAuthor(s): Auguste Prost\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108027564, 978-1108027564\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. Volume 2, covering the period [tel], is organized around Agrippa's travels and teaching across Europe. This volume also includes an appendix, which returns to a range of subjects touched on in the work as a whole, including Agrippa's name, family life, and ac.