De Incantationibus

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...favorable to books of every kind, why has it never, in so many years, released this most learned and delightful work for public use? Several plausible reasons occurred to me, though they were not difficult to dismiss.

The first reason seemed to be this: because this author—just as in some of his other works he did not seem to speak entirely well of the immortality of our soul Pomponazzi’s 1516 treatise On the Immortality of the Soul caused a massive scandal by arguing that the soul's immortality could not be proven by Aristotelian reason, only by faith.—so too in this work, he appeared to many to hold questionable views regarding certain miracles commonly accepted within the Christian religion.

But those who have read his writings, or heard him teaching in public, ought to remember that he was accustomed to say that he, as a philosopher,