Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Peter Maxwell-Stuart, Ph.D. (1994), FRHS, FSAC Scotland, is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. He has widely published on classical subjects and occult sciences, as well as translations including Gómez Pereira's Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019). José Manuel García Valverde, Ph.D. (2004), University of Seville, is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy as well as Greek Classical Thought. He has published critical editions, translations and many articles on the history of Aristotelianism, including Giacomo Zabarella. De rebus naturalibus (Brill, 2015) and Gómez Pereira’s Antoniana Margarita (Brill, 2019).

Introduction



Note on the Latin Text



Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex



Book 5: The Third Volume of Investigations into Magic, or, the Suitable Way for Judges and Confessors to Proceed

 1 Preliminary Letters

 2 Dedicatory Verses

 3 Prefatory Remarks

 4 Section 1: Should the Usual Legal Manner and Procedure Be Retained When Trying This Crime?

 5 Section 2: In the Case of This Crime, How Should an Investigation Be Organised?

 6 Section 3: Very Good Circumstantial Evidence Which Means That a Judge Can Proceed Safely to Try This Crime

 7 Section 4: Other Less Compelling and Less Certain Pieces of Circumstantial Evidence

 8 Section 5: (i) Laying Information against Someone, (ii) Witnesses

 9 Section 6: Things Which Usually Take the Place of an Accusation in This Case, and the Accusation Itself

 10 Section 7: Arrest and Imprisonment

 11 Section 8: Accusation in Court after Imprisonment

 12 Section 9: Torture

 13 Section 10: Other Ways of Investigating the Truth

 14 Section 11: Confessions

 15 Section 12: Abjuration

 16 Section 13: Canonical Purgation

 17 Section 14: Acquittal

 18 Section 15: The Nature of Acts of Fortune-Telling [sortilegiorum]. Which of Them Are Conducive to Heresy and Which Are Not?

 19 Section 16: The Punishment and Execution of Workers of Harmful Magic

 20 Section 17: Books of Magic

 21 Section 18: Offering the Eucharist to Those Who Are about to Die

 22 Section 19: Should the Corpse Receive Burial?

 Appendix 1: Additional Material from Pierre Dheure

 Appendix 2: The Reply of Martín Del RÍo of the Society of Jesus to the Questions of a Most Serene Prince about the Way to Proceed against Witches [striges] or Workers of Poisonous Magic [veneficos]



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Index