Tostado, Alonso

Tostado, Alonso. Opera, 20 vols. (Venice Joannes Jacobus de Angelis et al., 1507-1531). 

A direct example of Thomas s authority may be seen in the work of the well-known bishop of Avila (in modern Castilla-Leon), Alonso Tostado (c. 1400—1455), an important figure in the early stages of the Great Witch Hunt.134 In his extensive commentary to Exodus, Tostado considers the familiar issue of the staffs that Pharaoh s magicians supposedly transmuted... 

How much stronger would be the reaction to the homunculus In the early and mid seventeenth century, influential Catholic authors such as the Minim friar Marin Mersenne and the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher triumphantly broadcast Alonso Tostado s story ofArnald ofVillanova and the smashing of his homunculus flask. A generation earlier Martinus Del Rio,... 

Nonetheless, it must be said that the extreme opponents of alchemy such as Nicholas Eymerich, Alonso Tostado, and Antonius Ruvius did little... 

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