Rabassini, Andrea (Author)
The alimentary habits of the hyena (eating corpses) and the sexual nature ascribed to this animal since Antiquity (hermaphrodism) were essential as to its negative connotations during the Middle Ages. The hyena was used in the condemnation of sodomy, it represented Satan or the Jews, or else it was used as a symbol of capital vices and sins. During the Renaissance, the concept of hyena assumes new meanings, for instance as a negative symbol of pernicious flattery in Bruno's Cantus circaeus. Moreover, ancient views on its presumed magical powers, not completely unknown during the Middle Ages, became quite influential. Especially in Ficino, the hyena's capacity for putting spells on dogs with its shadow became an argument for assigning a real nature to the umbra, seen as a distinct level on the scale of being and knowledge. This type of referring to the hyena in ontological and epistemological contexts was resumed by Bruno, who in De monade appears to intertwine it with his polemics against Christianity.
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