SOURCE: "Cornelius Agrippa-Doctor, Knight, and Magician," in Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, Vol. IX, No. XLIX, January 1857, pp. 70-79.

Here, an anonymous reviewer provides an overview of Henry Morley's Life of Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim (1856), favorably commenting on several of Agrippa's works.

Where Agrippa is known, he is known as a magician. In the sixteenth century, everybody knew that he was in commerce with the devil, to whom he had sold his soul. Charitable Butler only says that

 Agrippa kept a Stygian pug
I'th garb and habit of a dog,
That was his tutor, and the cur
Read to the occult philosopher,
And taught him subtly to maintain
All other sciences are vain. 

But Southey copies a monkish tale describing his study:

 The letters were written with blood therein,
And the leaves were made of dead man's skin. 

And there was no doubt, in...