[i5] See this particularly proved of Ficinus, in Buhle’s Geschichte der Philosophie, vi. theil. § 889.
[i6] Buhle, ubi supra, § 897.
[i7] The most deliberate attempt of this kind that I have seen, is that of Dürr, in the sixth volume of Schellhorn’s Amœnitates Literariæ; where the story of Faust is called “Historiola pueris et aniculis credita;” and the hero himself, “Doctor Faust fictitius ille et imaginarius.”
[i8] Faust, eine Tragœdie, von August Klingemann, Leipzig, 1815; of which there is a good account in one of the numbers of Blackwood’s Magazine.
[i9] Christ. Aug. Huemann’s Glaubwürdigste Nachricht von D. Fausten. In einem Schreiben an Herrn D. Haubern. Bib. Mag. vol. iii. p. 84.
[i10] Die Sage von Doctor Faust, von D. Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, in Raumer’s Historiches Taschenbuch, 5ter Jahrgang, Leipzig, 1834. The same number contains a dissertation on Wallenstein.
[i11] Apud Heumann.
[i12] From the Latin of Manlius. Apud Heumann, ut supra.
[i13] Wierii Opera, Amstelodami, 1660. De Magis Infamibus, p. 105. He is as little favourable to our hero as Manlius. He says, indeed, that he practised magic over the whole of Germany, “cum multorum admiratione;” and that “nihil non potuit,” but it was all “inani jactantia et pollicitationibus.”
[i14] Disquisit. Mag., lib. ii. dissert. 12.