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Rapisarda, Stefano / Niblaeus, Erik, ed. Dialogues among books in Medieval Western magic and divination. Edited by Stefano Rapisarda and Erik Niblaeus. Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014, 192pp., sewn PAPERBACK, pages are slightly wavy and warped along the top edge, probably due to very light moisture damage which is in no other way visible, but the book appears unused. Micrologus' library, 65. Texts in English, French, and Spanish; introduction in German; abstracts in English. - The history of philosophy, like the history of literature - and at times even the history of science - can justifiably be defined as a «dialogue» between texts. Texts interact without regard to distances of time and space: they talk to one other, quote, refer to, hint, allude, comment, and remark. They can make tributes, acknowledgements, contradictions and confutations. In the history of Western divination, for example, we can find Ptolomeus in dialogue with Greek and "Oriental" traditions; Augustine dealing with the Pagan tradition via biblical authority and Christian doctrine; the Secretum secretorum in dialogue with Hermetic or pseu-do-Hermetic traditions; Nicole Oresme's Livre de divinations in dialogue with Cicero's De divinatione, and so on. The papers delivered in the Erlangen Workshop wish attempt to explore a number of «canonical» texts on the subject of divination (and anti-divination), both as individual texts and in their intertextual connections. - Klaus Herbers, Geleitwort - Stefano Rapisarda, Dialogue (and Struggle) among Books. A Look at Science Books and Divination in Particular - Erik Niblaeus, Arguing Divination by the Book. The Latin Fathers and Scriptural Categories of Foretelling - Jean-Patrice Boudet, Astrology Between Rational Science and Divine Inspiration. The Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium - Alle-gra Iafrate, Pythagoras' Index. Denoting Authorship in Sortes Books - Katy Bernard, Le Dodechedron occitan du manuscrit Jr. 147/1 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Alberto Alonso Guardo, Apuntes sobre el De sortibus de Tomâs de Aquino - Julien Véronèse, The Ars notoria in the Middle Ages and Modem Times: Diffusion and Influence(s). ISBN 9788884505811.