The life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, doctor and knight, commonly known as a magician / Henry Morley.

  • Morley, Henry, 1822-1894.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, doctor and knight, commonly known as a magician / Henry Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    band re-entered Metz with his dead wife, carried for burial by Brennon in their old Church of St. Cross. For this leason I think she may have had her little daughter buried there. But if it was not so, there was a brief recovery, permitting the boat-journey on the Rhine and the Moselle, and it was with a dying wife that Cornelius Agrippa passed again under the gates of Metz, that were to him the gates of sorrow. By Brennon, in the Church of St. Cross at Metz, the faithful wife was buried. Agrippa supplied money for a worthy tomb1 2, and ever afterwards took care that a pious service was held annually in her memory, and for her soul’s repose3.] When all was over, he and his son quitted the inhospitable town. Even his friend Bren- non knew not whither he was dying, in his poverty and his despair3. 1 Ep. 8, Lib. iii. p. 785. 2 Ep. 19, Lib. iv. p. 846. Ep. 8, Lib. iii. p. 785. “ Ab eo quo a nobis discesseris,” he says, when he has found him, “ nullus unquam fuit qui aut literas dederit, aut saltern de te verburn ullum: id siquidem suspicione magna non caruit, qua; nos mente cruciatos satis effecerit.”