| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-315) and index. |
| Summary |
Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome?s Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the ?magic Prague? of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth?and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. |
| Subject |
Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.
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Christian heretics -- Italy -- Biography.
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Philosophers -- Italy -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780809095247 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0809095246 hardcover alkaline paper |
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