Giordano Bruno
Philosopher / Heretic
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A Note on Translation
Prologue: The Hooded Friar
1. A Most Solemn Act of Justice
2. The Nolan Philosopher
3. "Napoli e tutto il mondo"
4. "The world is fine as it is"
5. "I have, in effect, harbored doubts"
6. "I came into this world to light a fire"
7. Footprints in the Forest
8. A Thousand Worlds
9. Art and Astronomy
10. Trouble Again
11. Holy Asininity
12. The Signs of the Times
13. A Lonely Sparrow
14. Thirty
15. The Gifts of the Magi
16. The Song of Circe
17. "Go up to Oxford"
18. Down Risky Streets
19. The Art of Magic
20. Canticles
21. Squaring the Circle
22. Consolation and Valediction
23. Infinities
24. Return to Italy
25. The Witness
26. The Adversary
27. Gethsemane
28. Hell’s Purgatory
29. The Sentence
30. The Field of Flowers
Epilogue: The Four Rivers
Appendix: Bruno’s Sentence
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
“Whatever else Bruno was, he was wild-minded and extreme, and Rowland communicates this, together with a sense of the excitement that his ideas gave him. . . . It’s that feeling for the explosiveness of the period, and [Rowland’s] admiration of Bruno for participating in it—indeed, dying for it—that is the central and most cherishable quality of the biography.”
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