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This study is given to the positions on magic of two protagonists of 16th-century Italian philosophy, namely Francesco Storella (1529-1575), professor of logic at Naples and Salerno and master of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), and Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615), among the period’s most famous natural magicians. The purpose is to show the textual and conceptual ties between these two authors’ positions, put forward in Naples during the same period. In particular, the study examines Storella's image of “Aristotle the magician” and the role of his commentary on the Secretum secretorum in the process of recovering doctrines on the natural occult of Albert the Great in the natural magic of Della Porta.