ABSTRACT
Armando Maggi is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Committee on History of Culture. His scholarship includes works on Renaissance and baroque literature, mysticism, and philosophy with some fifty essays on rare or virtually unknown Neoplatonic treatises on love, Michelangelo’s poetry, books of emblems, the philosophy of Giordano Bruno, and the writings of the Capuchin mystic Veronica Giuliani. His latest book is Satan’s Rhetoric, A Study of Renaissance Demonology (University of Chicago Press, 2001). A new book, Beings Against Nature, on the concept of ‘familiar spirits’ in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century culture, is near completion. Correspondence may be addressed: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 1050 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
