The present study is motivated by the interest for the famous and complex section of the Philebus which alludes to the so-called gift of the gods, consisting in the revelation that "the things that are said to always are ...

The present work starts from the desire to deepen the figure and thought of two leading exponents of the ‘magical’ or ‘occult’ Renaissance in a Germanic milieu: Johannes Trithemius and Cornelius Agrippa. Both located in a ...