The De uanitate scientiarum de Cornelius Agrippa: offense to the sciences and praise of the donkey

Authors

  • Manuel Mañas Núñez Universidad de Extremadura

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23808/rel.v3i0.87957

Keywords:

Latin Humanism; Erasmism; Hermetism

Abstract

The German humanist Cornelius Agrippa (1486-ca. 1535) proposes in his work De incertitudine et uanitate scientiarum the need of a cultural, social and religious reform. With this spirit pre-reformist, attacks hardly all the sciences and existing arts in his epoch, concluding the work with an Asini laus in the same line that Erasmus’ Stultitae laus. Agrippa’s message only is understood explaining the hermetic and cabbalistic sense that attributes to the figure of the ass.

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Published

2003-12-23

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Mañas Núñez, M. (2003) “The De uanitate scientiarum de Cornelius Agrippa: offense to the sciences and praise of the donkey”, Revista de Estudios Latinos, 3, pp. 183–203. doi: 10.23808/rel.v3i0.87957.

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Vol. 3 (2003)

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