Giovanni Agostino Panteo

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Giovanni Agostino Panteo , also Pantheo, was a 16th century Italian alchemist and clergyman from Venice.

He published the book Ars transmutationis metallicae in 1519 , both with the permission of the Pope and the Council of Ten in Venice, even though the council had actually banned alchemy in 1488 to counter counterfeiting. In 1530 he published Voarchadumia contra alchemiam ars distincta from Archemia et Sophia , in which he distinguished alchemy from archimia. According to him, alchemy cannot produce any real transformations into gold, in contrast to archimia, which he traces back to the biblical tubal and connects it with the Kabbalah . The word invention Vorarchadumia is shaped after Panteo from the Chaldean for gold and the Hebrew for two rubies . In the book, which also contains parts of his book from 1519, he also mentions a recipe for making mirrors and brings two esoteric alphabets in addition to the Hebrew alphabet. One is from the Occulta Philosophia (1513) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (Transitus fluvii), the other he traces back to Enoch and influenced a similar construct by John Dee (a copy of Panteo's book with annotations by Dee is from 1559 in the British Library).

Both texts were reprinted together in 1550 and also in the Theatrum Chemicum .

According to Joachim Telle, possibly the son of Johannes Antonius Panteo von Verona († 1497), who left writings about seaside resorts.

He is also said to have written a work Institutions that was written before 1518 and is dedicated to alchemical transmutations, but has been lost.

literature

  • John Ferguson: Bibliotheca Chemica, Volume 2, 1906, pp. 166f
  • Peter Forshaw: Cabala Chymica or Chemica Cabalistica - Early Modern Alchemists and Cabala, Ambix, Volume 60, 2013, pp. 361–383 (here p. 371ff)
  • Alfredo Perifano: L'alchimie à la cour de Cosme 1er de Médicis - Savoirs, culture et politique Honoré Champion - Collection: Etudes et essais sur la Renaissance, 1997, pp. 18-19
  • Lynn Thorndike : A history of magic and experimental science, Columbia University Press, Volume 8, 1958, pp. 537-540
  • Joachim Telle : Pantheus, Johannes Augustinus (Panteo, Giovanni Agostino), Alchemist († after 1535), Lexicon of the Middle Ages , 1993

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SURNAME Panteo, Giovanni Agostino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century