Author
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim is documented in Fuller’s books and manuscripts (1843). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“One of his favorite books was "Agrippa de vanitate Scientiarum" which he recommended to me and thus set my young brain in confusion for some time.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Such mirrors had Cornelius Agrippa and other wizards.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller mentions 'Cornelius Agrippa and other wizards' as possessors of magic mirrors, in the context of the Faerie Queene quotation about Britomart's mirror. Agrippa (1486–1535) is best known for De Occulta Philosophia (1531), where he discusses catoptromancy and magic mirrors.
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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“One of his favorite books was "Agrippa de vanitate Scientiarum" which he recommended to me and thus set my young brain in confusion for some time.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Plan for a Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The passage is a transcription from Dichtung und Wahrheit, recounting what Goethe's older acquaintance Huisgen recommended to him: 'Agrippa de vanitate Scientiarum.' The title is rendered in the abbreviated Latin form Fuller transcribes from Goethe's text. The full title is De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium atque excellentia verbi Dei declamatio invectiva, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (Cologne [Antwerp], 1530) — a skeptical survey of human knowledge. This is quoted by Goethe in Dichtung und Wahrheit as a book that troubled him in youth.