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The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim, Doctor and Knight, Commonly Known as a Magicien; In Two Volumes
The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim Doctor and Knight Commonly Known as a Magicien In Two Volumes Author:Henry Morley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. RELATES A GREAT DISPUTE WITH THE DOMINICANS OF METZ : TELLS ALSO HOW AGRHTA SAVED A VILLAGE GIRL ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THE CHIEF INQUISITOR, AND LOST HIS OFFICE OF TOWN ADVOCATE AND ORATOR. Dining sometimes, in the year 1519, with his friend Father Claudius Deodatus at the religious house of the Celestines in the market-place, Cornelius Agrippa used to discourse much at table on the state of man before the fall, the fall of the angels, and other matters1. Except Father Claudius and the prior and one studious youth, none of the monks diverted their attention from their dinners to take more heed of the earnest scholar than to note that he often spoke with respect of theological inquirers who were not considered to be sound by the stationary party in the Church3. They were critical times in which Cornelius Agrippa had devoted himself to the study of Theology. Luther's stand against corruption was then in the first years of its strength, and many writers who abided by the Church were labouring to clear 1 Ep. 20, 21, Lib. ii. p. 740. 2 The same; also Ep. 24, p. 742. FATHER CLAUDIUS DEODATUS. 37 it of its grosser errors. Cornelius was of one mind with these. He had as yet read nothing of Luther's; no writing of his had found its way to the strict town of Metz; but what the spiritual scholar heard about the undaunted Reformer pleased him, and he was not afraid to say so openly1, and to speak with contempt of the priests known as Luther's foremost enemies. Cornelius had read also and enjoyed all that he had met with of the writings of ...« less