Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance
Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from Italy to Northern Europe and England, and finally to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, which today are considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London, as a gentleman attendant to the French Ambassador, Michel de Castelnau. He died refusing to recant views which he...
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The British Society for the History of Philosophy devoted its June 2000 conference, held in London, to Italian philosopher Bruno (1548- 1600) and in particular to his time in Elizabethan London, 1583-85, during which he wrote and published the six Italian dialogues that many consider his philosophical masterpiece. The 18 essays have been considerably revised in light of responses to the reception of their original presentation. They consider his time in Italy and England, his philosophical themes, and influences and traditions. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPt. 1Introduction1Giordano Bruno as Philosopher of the Renaissance3Pt. 2Bruno and Italy2The Image of Giordano Bruno173Philosophy versus Religion and Science versus Religion: the Trials of Bruno and Galileo514Giordano Bruno and Neapolitan Neoplatonism975Images of Literary Memory in the Italian Dialogues: Some Notes on Giordano Bruno and Ludovico Ariosto121Pt. 3Bruno in England6Giordano Bruno and the Protestant Ethic1457John Charlewood, Printer of Giordano Bruno's Italian Dialogues, and his Book Production1678Giordano Bruno's Infinite Worlds in John Florio's Worlds of Words1879Ultima Thule: Contrasting Empires in Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper and Shakespeare's Tempest201Pt. 4Philosophical Themes10Giordano Bruno and Astrology22911Simulacra et Signacula: Memory, Magic and Metaphysics in Brunian Mnemonics25112Metempsychosis and Monism in Bruno's nova filosofia27313The Necessity of the Minima in the Nolan Philosophy29914Meanings of 'contractio' in Giordano Bruno's Sigillus sigillorum327Pt. 5Influence and Tradition15Giordano Bruno's Mnemonics and Giambattista Vico's Recollective Philology34516Macrocosm, Microcosm and the Circulation of the Blood: Bruno and Harvey36517Monadology and the Reception of Bruno in the Young Leibniz38118Being a Modern Philosopher and Reading Giordano Bruno405Index417
