Gabriel Naudé’s Apology for Great Men Suspected of Magic Variations in Editions from 1625 to 1715

I n 1625, 25-year-old Gabriel Naudé published Apologie pour tous les grands personages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de Magie [Apology for All the Great Persons who have been Falsely Suspected of Magic] in Paris. 1 Demonic magic was well-established as a heresy in the seventeenth century. Naudé contended against so-called historians and demonologists from a wide range of religious viewpoints who were sure that demonic magicians had been and continued to be very active. Naudé’s amusing book on how to read and evaluate books contributed to questioning such allegations among the lawyers and judges, theologians and academics, and doctors and professionals who frequented libraries open to gentlemen. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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