"Spiritus,vehiculum, sensus naturae": note sulla fortuna di Guglielmo d’Alvernia nel pensiero rinascimentale

The spirit and marvels form the basis of an hermeneutics of natural causality grounded in the action of spiritual species acting upon matter, whose origins can be traced back to the scholasticism of the 13th century and which, with original adaptations, resonates in the Renaissance. The aim of my essay is to demonstrate how the thought of William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris (1228-1249), represents an exemplary case study and how his reflections on "sensus naturae" and "divinatio" have sparked interest in Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim.