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Witchcraft. BODIN. De la demonomanie des Sorciers.

1581
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Witchcraft. BODIN. De la demonomanie des Sorciers.
1581

 
BODIN, Ioannes. De la demonomanie des Sorciers.
Paris, Chez Iacques de Puys Libraire Iuré, a la Samaritaine, 1581

Rara seconda edizione. Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1580, la Demonomania degli stregoni, dedicata ai sortilegi di streghe e incantatori e alla repressione della malefica alleanza tra uomini e demoni, riscosse un enorme successo. Il celebre giurista francese, crede nei patti con i demoni, nell'evocazione dei morti e nell'accoppiamento carnale con i demoni. Propugna la tortura e poi l'eliminazione tramite rogo. L'opera si conclude con una confutazione delle opinioni di Jean Wier, un medico che considerava le streghe malate.
Questo libro, ampiamente studiato, intendeva quindi dimostrare sia l'esistenza degli stregoni sia la legittimità della loro condanna. Tuttavia, la credenza superstiziosa di Bodin nella stregoneria non fu approvata dalla Chiesa e tutte le sue opere furono messe all'Indice nel 1628. 
Thorndike: “… asserts that witches are transported through the air, that demons assume human form, and that men are transformed into animals. He believes in lycanthropy or werwolves and in the marks of sorcerers. In their professed cures they employ unnatural remedies and poisons like the brain of a cat or head of a raven. Really the only maladies which they can cure are those which they have inflicted, and in this case they must pass the ailment on to someone else…”
Pearl: “On the Demon-Mania of Witches’ (De la démonomanie des sorciers) appeared in 1580 and rapidly became a major publishing success. It underwent at least twenty-three editions and was translated from its original French into German, Italian and Latin. It was surely the most published work of the era on the subject of demons and witches. Because of its wide distribution, it has been considered by generations of historians to have been an extremely influential book, responsible in itself for large-scale prosecutions of witches in the four or five decades following its appearance.”

Adams B-2222; Caillet R7023 (prima edizione); Tchemerzine II, 246; Thorndike VI, 526-27. Jonathan L. Pearl, in: Jean Bodin, On the Demon-Mania of Witches, Toronto, 2001, p. 10.

4to. 220x150 mm. Legatura in pergamena floscia. Carte [XII], 256. Antica nota manoscritta al frontespizio cancellata, numerosi passi sottolineati a penna con inchiostro nero. Tracce d’uso e difetti alla legatura. 
thu 10 September 2026
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