Yuri Rednev.

"The article aims to rethink the several stereotypes of Romantic tradition, which are still reproduced in regard to Benvenuto Cellini and his Vita. Using the approaches of intellectual history and iconographical studies, the present study pays attention to the coherent system of lay, scientific and 'secret' knowledge of the epoch lurking under the surface of the simplicity and even naivety of the author's language. I argue that this autobiographical writing embodies a certain type of culture of the self deeply rooted in contemporary medical, alchemical and magical contexts. Organized around the concept of " getting pleasure, " Cellini's practices of the self are built into the Neo-Platonic picture of the world. Analyzing the two passages of Vita, I demonstrate the author's spiritual ascent from the corporeal suffering to union with 'the One' by means of individual and collective magic rituals, transforming his Life into a work of art."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...i%27s_Vita

"The historiographical construal of the relations between science and religion in terms of
conflict has long undermined the legitimacy of the study of spiritual alchemy. Recent studies
have illustrated the compatibility of natural philosophy and theology during the early modern
period. This project will follow the recent trend in reassessing this conflict by examining the
work of an illustrious renaissance alchemist, Gerhard Dorn (c. 1530/5 – after 1584). I will
approach Dorn as a ‘secular theologian,’ a natural philosopher who attempted to restore
harmony and unity in the world by means of a scientific-philosophical discourse."


ILLUSTRIOUS PROVIDENCE AND THE SUPERNATURAL ART.
A RENAISSANCE ALCHEMIST AND HIS PURSUIT OF SALVATION
Zoë Van Cauwenberg


https://libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/...001_AC.pdf

The Alchemical Order: Reason, Passions, Alchemy and the Social World in the Philosophy and Cosmology of Jean d’Espagnet

by Alexander Scott Dessens.


"Jean d’Espagnet (c. 1564–1637?) was a magistrate and presiding judge at the parlement of  Bordeaux  in  the  late  sixteenth  and  early  seventeenth  centuries.    He  served  on  the  court  from 1590 until retiring in 1615, from 1600 as a président, a venal office of significant power and social standing. After retirement he wrote three books which comprise his literary and intellectual legacy.Together they speak to the fertile philosophical ground of the late Renaissance and present a vision of order and God’s cosmos deeply influenced by Neoplatonism,  Hermetism,  Paracelsianism, Neostoicism,  and  medieval  alchemy,  as  well  as  d’Espagnet’s  judicial  education  and  social experience as a magistrate.  This dissertation explores the foundations of d’Espagnet’s philosophy of nature, tracing the development of certain philosophical ideas from ancient sources such as the Platonic and Hermetic traditions through medieval and Renaissance philosophers like Ramon Lull, Pseudo-Geber, and Marsilio Ficino to d’Espagnet and his contemporaries."

https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesi...t/19666323

Interesting online collection of texts on various Hermetic subjects:

https://via-hygeia.art/bibliotherapy/

By Kiran Toor

"In an attempt to trace Coleridge’s familiarity with Hermetic and alchemical discourses throughout his life, it has been necessary to review works as varied as those of Plato, Marsilio Ficino, Ralph Cudworth, Jacob Boehme, Herman Boerhaave, and F. W. J. Schelling. It is then suggested how Coleridge appropriates alchemical terminology to his own aesthetic and imaginative ends."


https://www.cambridgescholars.com/produc...438-2656-3

Heinrich Khunrathʼs use of Ficinian metaphysics of light.

By Martin Žemla.

https://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/Ficino...__emla.pdf

"The Tantric Alchemist is a work on alchemy as decoded by Tantra and a work on Tantra as understood by alchemists. It uncovers works by Thomas Vaughan and suggests how he and his wife—a 17th-century Welsh couple unique in the history of western alchemy—met their fate when dealing with forces they knew only too well, but which were stronger than their ability to control them."


At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/book/331236640/Th...-Tradition

By Theodore Ziolkowski

At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/34745618...Literature

By Euan Roger

"Where did Geoffrey Chaucer get the inspiration for his stories? As part of my research into the hundreds of Chaucer life records in our collections, I’ve been taking a look into one of the Canterbury Tales – the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale – which may have been based on Chaucer’s experience of a real-life trial in the court of the King’s Bench, the records of which are found at The National Archives. The trial was that of William de Brumley, a chaplain from Middlesex who had been caught red-handed trying to sell four counterfeit coins to the Master of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London; coins made – it was claimed – by means of alchemy. These coins had been made from a combination of gold, silver and other ‘medicines’ (‘sal armoniak’, ‘vitriol’ and ‘golermonik’ – probably meant to read ‘bole armoniak’) by the art of alchemy which William claimed he had been taught according to the doctrine of a canon of the king’s chapel at Windsor."


https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/geo...d-alchemy/

"This article studies the cultural significance of alchemy among the Russian nobility in St. Petersburg during the reign of Catherine the Great. It is argued that Catherine the Great perceived alchemy as a Western practice promoted by foreign charlatans and by mystically-inclined Freemasons, which threatened to undermine the foundations of her vision of Russia being a beacon of reason and enlightenment. The first section of this paper concentrates on Petr Ivanovich Melissino and examines the manner in which this prominent Russian aristocrat incorporated alchemy as a core component of his seven-grade Masonic Rite."

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https://brill.com/view/journals/jre/5/1/...anguage=en