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turned to me and said, ' Benvenuto, ask them something ?' 

 I answered, ' Let them bring me into the company of my 

 Sicilian mistress Angelica.' That night he obtained no 

 answer of any sort ; but I had received great satisfaction 

 in having my curiosity so far indulged. The necromancer 

 told me it was requisite we should go a second time, 

 assuring me that I should be satisfied in whatever I asked ; 

 but that I must bring with me a pure immaculate boy. 



" I took with me a youth who was in my service, of 

 about twelve years of age, together with the same Vin- 

 cenzio Eomoli, who had been my companion the first 

 time, and one Agnolino Gaddi, an intimate acquaintance, 

 whom I likewise prevailed on to assist at the ceremony. 

 When we came to the place appointed, the priest having 

 made his preparations as before, with the same and even 

 more striking ceremonies, placed us within the circle, 

 which he had likewise drawn with a more wonderful art, 

 and in a more solemn manner, than at our former meeting. 

 Thus, having committed the care of the perfumes and the 

 fire to my friend Vincenzio, who was assisted by Agnolino 

 Gaddi, he put into my hand a pintaculo or magical chart, 

 and bid me turn it towards the places that he should 

 direct me ; and under the pintaculo I held the boy. The 

 necromancer, having begun to make his tremendous in- 

 vocations, called by their names a multitude of demons 

 who were the leaders of the several legions, and ques- 

 tioned them, by the power of the eternal uncreated God, 

 who lives for ever, in the Hebrew language, as likewise 

 in Latin and Greek; insomuch that the amphitheatre 

 was almost in an instant filled with demons more 

 numerous than at the former conjuration. Vincenzio 

 Romoli was busied in making a fire, with the assistance 

 of Agnolino, and burning a great ' quantity of precious 

 perfumes. I, by the directions of the necromancer, again 

 desired to be in the company of my Angelica. The 



