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Beethoven, Caspar Peucer’S Commentarius, And Enchanted Nature, Nicholas Chong
Beethoven, Caspar Peucer’S Commentarius, And Enchanted Nature, Nicholas Chong
The Beethoven Journal
The posthumous inventory of Beethoven’s library includes a late Renaissance treatise by Caspar Peucer (1525–1602) entitled Commentarius de præcipuis generibus divinationum (Commentary on the main types of divination). Peucer’s text is concerned mainly with methods of predicting the future through such practices as magic, astrology, and the reading of oracles. Neither Peucer nor his treatise is mentioned in any other source associated with Beethoven. The composer also had a limited knowledge of Latin and his copy of Peucer’s text was more than two centuries old.
Previous scholarship has not explored Beethoven’s ownership of this book in any detail, except to …
A Poem On The Late Massacre In Virginia. With Particular Mention Of Those Men Of Note That Suffered In That Disaster, Christopher Brooke
A Poem On The Late Massacre In Virginia. With Particular Mention Of Those Men Of Note That Suffered In That Disaster, Christopher Brooke
English 144 Class Projects
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