Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780754605621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 448 str.

Hilary Gatti

Opis

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, today considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and for which he claimed liberty of expression.

Recenzje

'This collection is evidence that more than 400 years after the Church burnt him at the stake he is increasingly alive and provocative for a modern audience.' Journal of the Academic Study of Magic

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Giordano Bruno as philosopher of the Renaissance, Giovanni Aquilecchia; Bruno and Italy: The image of Giordano Bruno, Lars Berggren; Philosophy versus religion and science versus religion: the trials of Bruno and Galileo, Maurice Finocchiaro; Giordano Bruno and Neapolitan neoplatonism, Ingrid D. Rowland; Images of literary memory in the Italian dialogues: some notes on Giordano Bruno and Ludovico Ariosto, Lina Bolzoni; Bruno in England: Giordano Bruno and the Protestant ethic, Hilary Gatti; John Charlewood, printer of Giordano Bruno’s Italian dialogues, and his book production, Tiziana Provvidera; Giordano Bruno’s infinite worlds in John Florio’s Worlds of Words, Michael Wyatt; Ultima Thule: contrasting empires in Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper and Shakespeare’s Tempest, Elisabetta Tarantino; Philosophical Themes: Giordano Bruno and astrology, Leen Spruit; Simulacra e Signacula: memory, magic and metaphysics in Brunian mnemonics, Stephen Clucas; Metempsychosis and monism in Bruno’s nova filosofia, Ramon G. Mendoza; The necessity of the minima in the Nolan philosophy, Ernesto Schettino; Meanings of ’contractio’ in Giordano Bruno’s Sigillus sigillorum, Leo Catana; Influence and Tradition: Giordano Bruno’s mnemonics and Giambattista Vico’s recollective philology, Paul Colilli; Macrocosm, microcosm and the circulation of the blood: Bruno and Harvey, Andrew Gregory; Monadology and the reception of Bruno in the young Leibniz, Stuart Brown; Being a modern philosopher and reading Giordano Bruno, Paul Richard Blum; Index.

O autorze

Hilary Gatti