Essays on Giordano Bruno / Hilary Gatti.

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Main Author: Gatti, Hilary
Other title:Essays. Selections. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Between magic and magnetism: Bruno's cosmology at Oxford
  • Bruno's Copernican diagrams
  • Bruno and the new atomism
  • The multiple languages of the new science
  • Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno
  • The sense of an ending in Bruno's Heroici furori
  • Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet
  • Bruno's Candelaio and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
  • Bruno and the Stuart Court masques
  • Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Bruno and the Victorians
  • Bruno's natural philosophy
  • Bruno's use of The Bible in his Italian philosophical dialogues
  • Science and magic: the resolution of contraries
  • Bruno and metaphor
  • Epilogue: why Bruno's "a tranquil universal philosophy" finished in a fire.