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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 39–61.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Nuova to a more “scientific” view in the third epistle and again to a moralistic view in the Commedia (whose circle of lust boasts, in the wind that buffets the lustful, an example of compulsion borrowed from Nicomachean Ethics 3.1). The philosopher and astrologer Cecco d’Ascoli is a contemporary...
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Thinking with the Inquisition: Heretical Science and Popular Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 111–132.
Published: 01 January 2012
... on astronomy and astrology, this version of scientific epistemology became a means to overcome the economy of Catholic orthodoxy and to replace the moral authority of the censor with the scientific guidance of the scholar. Sigtienza's confrontation did not take place as a direct attack on the Church but rather...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 49–64.
Published: 01 January 2012
...; old and dirty rags that contained pieces of ointment, dark powders, pieces of something resembling paint, little brushes, and a larger paintbrush. Eight pages that seemed to be about judiciary astrology and a little bag in the form of an animal's paw with five claws, enveloped in a sock and containing...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 May 2022
... was a prerequisite for the study of astrology, and thus supplemented medical practice. 23 The scene of Noble’s medical examination and “treatment” reflects an equally technical grasp of the period’s medical practices. As Benoît Chapuis has observed, by diagnosing Noble with a “fevre cartene” (line 1525...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 11–47.
Published: 01 January 2012
... didacticismo y heterodoxia JUAN RUIZ AND THE HETERODOX NATURALISM OF SPAIN 29 Faculty of £1 Tostado and his disciples). It is by means of centers such as those referred to in the Lucidario or the Cordoban Virgil (with their professorships in natural philosophy, astrology, necromancy, geomancy although...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 65–86.
Published: 01 May 2022
... solidifying the ideological connection between Florentine poetry and learned masters of arts and medicine. 6 And despite his antagonistic and polemical remarks, the astrologer, scholar, and poet Cecco d’Ascoli (Francesco Stabili, 1280/1285–1327) corrects both Dante and Cavalcanti’s scientific positions...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 3–10.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of publishing yearly almanacs. This obligation placed Sigiienza in the difficult position of practicing astrology while critiquing it. In his position of Inquisitorial censor, during the last year of his life, Sigiienza aims to eradicate "heresy," which he now parallels with error as a sin of ignorance of truth...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 205–226.
Published: 01 September 2020
... fabrications combine knowledge and fiction, entailing an overlap between astrology, magic, mechanical art, and ruse. He uses his knowledge of nature’s secrets to make a potion that induces Olympias to experience a dream-vision in which the god Ammon comes to her in the form of a dragon with a ram’s head...
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Romanic Review (2008) 99 (3-4): 281–296.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the importance of intelligence, human quality par excellence and vital narrative element in the Decameronian tradition, allowing man even to dominate the stars. In support of her statement, she translates the aphorism attributed to Ptolemy, transformed into the motto and epigraph of divining astrology: vir...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (4): 639–654.
Published: 01 November 2010
... their lessons, as if the past were irretrievable: "come se il cielo, il sole, Ii elementi, l'uomini, fussino variati di moti, d'ordine e di potenza da quelli che gli erono antiquamente" (7). This phrase has a strong resonance of astrological naturalism, but Machiavelli's main theme is the invariance of human...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Gerbert induces his master’s daughter to help him steal it; he then escapes, evading pursuit thanks to a pact with the devil. The learning that Gerbert acquires in Spain includes magic, astrology, and divination as well as the “licitis artibus” (“permitted arts”; 280–81) of arithmetic, music, astronomy...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 191–207.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and all the arts that subtend it-medicine, astrology, transportation, the harnessing of the elements; next, to protect his bounty of grain, he invents the art of war-with its organized forces, its walled cities, its catapults, and finally its explosives: [1]1 avoit invente recentement Canons, Serpentines...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 218–236.
Published: 01 September 2023
... . State College : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2019 . al-Bīrūnī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad . The Book of Instruction in the Elements of Art of Astrology . Edited by Wright Robert Ramsey . London : Luzac , 1934 . Braun Christopher . “ Treasure-Hunting and Grave Robbery...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 115–134.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Jew, baptized 1106) and Adelard of Bath (ca. 1080 1132).19 In the Policraticus (1159), John of Salisbury warns against the deceptions of astrologers, wizards, dream interpreters, fortune-tellers, soothsayers, palmists, and crystal-seers (which includes using mirrors).20 His criticism suggests...
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Romanic Review (2018) 109 (1-4): 71–89.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of Astrology: Antecedents, Reasons and Consequences », in Church, Censorship . . . o p.cit., p. 79 110. Sur ce point, voir aussi les remarques de Neil Tarrant, « Censoring Science in Sixteenth-c entury Italy: Recent (and not so Recent) Research », History of Science, n° 52, 2014, p. 1 27. 9 Bruno Neveu, L...
