Note 472 — Chapter VI · SORCERY AND OCCULT ARTS. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Constitt. Sicular. III. xlii. 1-3.—Cechetti, La Republica di Venizia e la Corte di Roma I. 15.—Chron. Senoniens. Lib. IV. c. 4 (D’Achery II. 631).—Huillard-Bréholles, Introd. pp. DXXV., DXXX.—Assises de Jerusalem, Baisse Court c. 271 (Ed. Kausler, Stuttgart, 1839).—Mag. Bull. Rom. I. 91.
Frederic’s reputation is indicated in the lines—
“Amisit astrologos et magos et vates. Beelzebub et Astaroth, proprios penates Tenebrarum consulens per quos potestates Spreverat Ecclesiam et mundi magnates.” (Huillard-Bréholles, l. c.).
And Michael Scot, to succeeding generations, was not the philosopher, but the magician—
“Michele Scotto fu, che veramente Delle magiche frode seppe il giuoco”—(INFERNO, XX.)
whose wonders are commemorated in the “Lay of the Last Minstrel”—
“In these fair climes it was my lot To meet the wondrous Michael Scott, A wizard of such dreaded fame That when in Salamanca’s cave Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Nôtre Dame.”