Samuel Hartlib (Cambridge: Roger Daniel, 1647).Īnonymous, Pasquillorum Tomi Duo (Eleutheropoli: s.n., 1544). The latter were not idealized locales and homes of the muses, but profit-oriented media marketplaces.Īndreae, Johann Valentin, A Model of a Christian Society, trans. Counter-intuitively, Andreae’s normative Utopian works appeared under a real imprint at Strasbourg, while his Boccalinian critical satires were published from Utopia, Parnassus, and Cosmopolis. Johann Valentin Andreae (1586–1654), for instance, deployed fictive imprints methodically to delineate a special zone of criticism. This scene, which Boccalini drew from earlier pamphlet literature, went on to inform the ways that many other authors depicted the Parnassian press.

Boccalini’s opening scene of a marketplace of political charlatans emphasized such contemporary social skepticism. Boccalini’s fake news sheds light on the nature of the early modern public sphere as an arena in which veiled, untrustworthy communiqués had to be assessed. In his later works, alchemy is the object of ridicule and is placed with music, art, theatre and astrology in the category of less serious sciences.Fictive imprints, such as the simulated gazettes, the Advertisements from Parnassus of Trajano Boccalini (1556–1613), delineated a virtual realm for criticism and public debate. In his autobiography he indicated the Chymische Hochzeit as one of his works-as a 'ludibrium', possibly meaning 'lampoon'. His role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial. In 1650, he assumed direction of the monasterial school Bebenhausen in 1654, he became abbot of the evangelical monasterial school of Adelberg. He became also a spiritual adviser to a royal princess of Württemberg. In 1639, he became preacher at the court and councillor of the consistory (Konsistorialrat) in Stuttgart, where he advocated a fundamental church reform. To this end, he initiated the Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft ('Christian God-loving Society'). Here he reformed the school and social institutions, and established institutions for charity and other aids. He studied theology and natural sciences in Tübingen,obtaining a degree in 1614. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (1616, Strasbourg, the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz), one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism.

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