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De occulta philosophia is the name Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa gave to his most important work, to which he dedicated about twenty years, from 1510 to 1530. The text was published in four books, the first of which was in Paris in 1531. Occult philosophy is magic, considered "the true science, the highest and most perfect philosophy, in a word the perfection and fulfillment of all natural sciences". The author describes the existence of three worlds: the Elementary, the Celestial and the Intellectual, to which three sciences correspond, Physics or natural Magic which investigates the essence of earthly things, Mathematics or celestial Magic, which he studies the motion of the stars and theology, which deals with God and religion, as well as with the devil, with rites, festivals and mysteries. The expression occult philosophy wants to underline its nature as a science, since philosophy is the science of material and spiritual things, but also the fact that, as it is occult, it is reserved for a few. The elements that make up the earthly bodies are four: water, air, earth and fire. Each of them stands in opposition to its opposite. Referring to Platonic philosophy, Agrippa describes six further properties of bodies: clarity, rarefaction and movement, darkness, density and immobility. easily work wonders and excel in natural magic " Agrippa distinguishes the elements in three orders, to the first belong the pure and incorruptible elements, to the second impure elements and, to the third which is also the most mysterious, it is made up of dissimilar elements that continually change one into the other: "through they can work wonders in all natural, celestial and supra-celestial things, as well as in both natural and celestial magic one comes to know and predict the future and from them the extermination of evil demons and reconciliation with good spirits descend " Not only the elements have a certain power, but also the objects, powers that we say occult since we do not know the causes nor the human spirit cannot understand them. The occult powers derive from the ideas, Platonically understood as pure and eternal forms, which are infused into things by the Soul of the World: "all occult qualities spread over herbs, stones, metals and animals through the sun, the moon , the planets and stars that are superior to the planets. And this spirit will be all the more useful to us, the more we know how to separate it from the other elements and the better we know how to make use of the things in which it will have penetrated more abundantly ». Source Fonte

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, (born September 14, 1486, Cologne - died February 18, 1535, Grenoble, father), court secretary of Charles V, doctor of Louise of Savoy, maddening theologian within the Catholic Church, military businessman in Spain and Italy, recognized expert in occultism and philosopher. His stormy career also included teaching at the universities of Dôle and Pavia, being appointed public speaker and advocate in Metz (until filed for defending an accused witch), exile from Germany in 1535 (after fighting with the inquisitor of Cologne), and imprisonment in France (for criticizing the Queen Mother). Agrippa's De occulta philosophia added impetus to the Renaissance study of magic and inserted his name into the earliest legends of Faust. In this book he explained the world in terms of kabbalistic analyzes of Hebrew letters and Pythagorean numerology and acclaimed magic as the best means of learning about God and nature. Around 1530 Agrippa outraged Charles V by publishing a ferocious attack on occultism and all other sciences ("Of the vanities and uncertainty of the arts and sciences", trans. 1569) and thus served the Renaissance renaissance of skepticism. Agrippa was imprisoned and branded a heretic. Having sunk all kinds of scientific knowledge, he found peaceful refuge in simple biblical piety.

The Landriano Castle is located near the town of the same name in the province of Pavia and is located on an islet around which a small river flows. It became famous thanks to the presence of a ghost of a lady whose name would be Janet and who lived in the castle in the sixteenth century. Some stories tell that the woman was executed in the castle square in the 1500s because she was accused of witchcraft and since then she has been wandering around the building in search of that peace that she cannot find. According to various testimonies, before the ghost of Janet materializes, a song or a kind of wail of a woman would be heard. It is also said that in some cases the ghost tried to communicate with passers-by. But in other sources the dark and sinister side of her is more evident. This would be powerful enough to hypnotize or put anyone who carelessly gets too close to the Castle into a trance. Generally, however, it doesn't always show the same way. On occasion one would only see the physiognomy of her face. In others, however, she would see a very confused luminous figure. Also, Janet's ghost wouldn't always appear in the same place. She now she materializes on the entrance door other times in front of the windows of the castle. Currently the Landriano Castle is closed because it is privately owned and it is therefore impossible to go inside and possibly be able to deepen the research or carry out surveys on the presence or absence of Janet's ghost. Unfortunately, for this very reason, Janet's mystery will always remain unsolved.