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One must never live only through the spirit of the times. He must accept the centuries and world encoded within.

THE

MAGICAL WORLD

OF THE HEROES

OF SIGNOR CESARE DELLA RIVIERA

In which, with unaccustomed clarity, it is treated

what the true NATURAL MAGIC may be:

And how there may be fashioned the royal

PHILOSOPHERS' STONE,

sole instrument of such a science.

There being narrated, one by one, the stupendous

and infallible effects which, by the said means,

a perfect HERO avails to work.

Now newly reprinted, and by the same Author corrected and enlarged,

with the addition of two copious Tables, the one of the more notable matters,

the other of the names of the Writers cited in the Book.

WITH PRIVILEGE.

In Milan, by Pietro Martire Locarni. 1605.

With licence of the Superiors.

The first published translation into English, derived principally from the Milanese edition of 1605, by B. C. P. Statema

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