The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (New Edition)

ISBN-13: 9780803262348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 324 str.

Giordano Bruno

Opis

The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548 1600), one of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in 1600. The primary evidence against him was the book Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, a daring indictment of the church that abounded in references to classical Greek mythology, Egyptian religion (especially the worship of Isis), Hermeticism, magic, and astrology. The author ofmore than sixty works on mathematics, science, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory, and esoteric mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought."