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Satanic Cults in Renaissance Florence

interpretation moved on to progressively more devilish readings of the tale, ending with a claim that perhaps its apparently innocent blasphemy was the key to seeing that Alibech’s sexual service to God reversed the biblical Fall, made the desert bloom as a new Garden of Eden, and even promised the arrival of the long-awaited third and last age of man inaugurated by none other than that innocent servant of God.

Books of necromancy had been used by Modenese magicians as early as the fourteenth century, as proved in one of the earliest surviving trials, that against Benvenuta Mangialoea (1370), who recalls that her father-in-law Manfredino taught her how to invoke demons using a big book, which allowed him to 'perform marvelously horrible things.

According to Renaissance theology, that third and last promised age, much like the age that preceded it, ushered in by Christ, would change in fundamental ways humanity’s relationship with God.

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