In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance

by Armando Maggi and Professor Armando Maggi

Book Overview

Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates.But with In the Company of Demons, the world's leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226501310
• ISBN13: 9780226501314
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"