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Article: Phasma.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2007
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Nicodemus Frischlin. Phasma.
Vol. 3, Part 2 of Samtliche Werke. Ed. and Trans. David Hotchkiss Price. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2007. 422 pp. append. [euro]275. ISBN: 978-3-7728-2154-7.
The Latin prologue to the Phasma, "Apparition," explains that the title is taken from Menander's comedy in which a girl appears to a young man through a wall-breach between their houses and wins his love. In this new Phasma, the devil has already appeared and won sectarians, whom he blinded to the Gospel's truth that Martin Luther had only just revealed. When the devil saw that the pope (his ally) could not stop Luther, he himself stirred up new interest in old ...