70 LETTERS ON NATURAL MAGIC. 



* Benvenuto, ask them something.' I answered, 

 ' Let them bring me into the company of my 

 Sicilian mistress Angelica.' That night he ob- 

 tained no answer of any sort ; but I had received 

 great satisfaction in having my curiosity so far 

 indulged. The necromancer told me it was re- 

 quisite 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 ser- 

 vice, of about twelve years of age, together with 

 the same Vincenzio Romoli, who had been my 

 companion the first time, and one Agnolino 

 Gaddi, an intimate acquaintance, whom I like- 

 wise 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, hav- 

 ing 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 invoca- 

 tions, called by their names a multitude of 

 demons who were the leaders of the several 

 legions, and questioned 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 



