Essays on Giordano Bruno / Hilary Gatti.
This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and appear here in English for the first time. Bruno (1548-1600) is...
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| Other title: | Essays. Selections. English |
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| Language: | English Italian |
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Princeton, N.J. :
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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.