Described by one modern scholar as a 'classic biography' of Agrippa, Prost's two-volume work (1881 1882) charts the life of one of the most renowned humanists of Renaissance Europe. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 1535) was a prolific author, best known for two popular, significant, and contradictory books: De occulta philosophia libri tres and De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium. Auguste Prost (1817 1896) established his reputation as an antiquarian and a historian of the French city of Metz. The first volume includes a comprehensive introduction to the occult...

Described by one modern scholar as a 'classic biography' of Agrippa, Prost's two-volume work (1881 1882) charts the life of one of the most renowned humanists of Renaissance Europe. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 1535) was a prolific author, best known for two popular, significant, and contradictory books: De occulta philosophia libri tres and De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium. Auguste Prost (1817 1896) established his reputation as an antiquarian and a historian of the French city of Metz. Volume 2, covering the period 1520 1535, is organized around...