Anima Magica Abscondita

To the Reader.

The source of this persecution is Cicognes original: "Cicognes," likely referring to Pierre le Loyer, Sieur de la Brosse, who wrote on specters, and after him Delrio in his Fabulous Disquisitions original: "Disquisitionum Magicarum libri sex" (1599), a famous treatise against witchcraft by Martin Delrio. But Paulus Jovius Paolo Giovio (1483–1552), an Italian physician and historian known for his biographical sketches stirred in the vomit, who, among other men's lives, has put my author to death meaning Jovius assassinated Agrippa's reputation in his biographical writings. It is done indeed emphatically between him and his poet, whom he hired (it seems) to stitch verse to his prose, and so patched up the legend. Who (says he) would have believed that a monstrous genius lay hidden within the calm face of Henry Cornelius Agrippa? original Latin: "Quis in Henrici Cornelii Agrippæ sedato vultu portentosum Ingenium latuisse crediderit?"

In his subsequent discourse, he states his question and returns my author's best qualities as a libel term: a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation on his memory. But what troubles him most of all is that Agrippa should prove his doctrine out of the Scriptures. Then he repeats the solemn crambe term: a distasteful repetition; literally "reheated cabbage" of his dog-devil, whose collar, emblematically wrought with nails, served as the ruff term: an exaggerated neck collar worn in the 16th century for his familiar term: a demon or spirit supposed to attend and obey a witch or magician. To close the story, he kills him at Lyons, where, being near his departure meaning his death, he unraveled his magic in this desperate dismissal—