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Shows how the magical language and occult methods of the Italian Renaissance are the key to understanding the mysteries of the Shakespeare sonnets, both as a cycle and as individual poems. It explores how the influence of Giordano Bruno’s Heroic Enthusiasms, Plato’s Symposium, Trismegistus’ Corpus Hermiticum, emblem books, and Italian “magic” in its various overlapping forms provided the foundation and content of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Other Renaissance Studies Books 1997 – Trissino’s Sophonisba and Aretino’s Horatia: Two Italian Renaissance Tragedies 2015 – Spatial Discourse in Shakespeares and Other English Early Modern Pastoral Drama 2015 – Renaissance Incorporations. Negotiating the Theory of the Kings Two Bodies
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