Imagination – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Giordano Bruno: the bond & the fantastic

Published on: February 17 2021 Last updated on: February 17 2021 Written by: Luke Di Giacomo Categorized into: Esotericism, Philosophy, Characters, History of Religions

421 years after the stake in Campo de 'Fiori, an in-depth study on the premises, contents and implications of Giordano Bruno's magic, which operationally declines the fantastic faculties of man and the profound knowledge of universal psychological dynamics.

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WB Yeats, William Blake and the sacred power of the imagination

Published on: October 5, 2019 Last updated on: April 28 2022 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Poetry, Guests Book, History of Religions

Although they lived one century after the other, in the biographies of Blake and Yeats it is possible to glimpse two parallel lives, based on some specular guiding ideas that guided their artistic and literary activity: the ideal of " religion of art ”, the saving mission of the artist, the emphasis placed on the imaginative faculty for the purposes of the process of self-realization and the announcement of the advent of a new era to come.

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Ioan P. Culianu: "game" and Magic in the Renaissance

Published on: January 25 2018 Last updated on: January 5 2021 Written by: Thomas de Brabant Categorized into: Philosophy, Guests Book, History of Religions

Review of the recent Lindau issue containing notes on the Romanian philosopher and historian of religions on the Renaissance ars magica (Serious Iocari. Science and art in the thought of the Renaissance, Lindau, Turin, 2017).

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Edgar Allan Poe and the criticism of the real in humorous farces

Published on: January 19 2018 Last updated on: 17 September 2018 Written by: Andrew Casella Categorized into: Italian Literature, Characters

The anniversary of the birth of the Master of Terror gives us the opportunity to analyze his mocking vision of the "real", of the world and of the past in an almost unknown branch of his work

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