Giordano Bruno : philosopher/heretic
Ingrid D. Rowland (Author)
Profiles the late-sixteenth-century philosopher and martyr, including his inspiration in the works of figures such as Shakespeare and Galileo, his lesser-known personal legacy, and his execution as a heretic
Print Book, English, 2008
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008
Biography
viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm
9780809095247, 0809095246
180751451
| A Note on Translation | ix | ||||
| Prologue: The Hooded Friar | 3 | ||||
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| 10. Trouble Again | 70 | ||||
| 11. Holy Asininity | 77 | ||||
| 12. The Signs of the Times | 87 | ||||
| 13. A Lonely Sparrow | 96 | ||||
| 14. Thirty | 104 | ||||
| 15. The Gifts of the Magi | 116 | ||||
| 16. The Song of Circe | 132 | ||||
| 17. "Go up to Oxford" | 139 | ||||
| 18. Down Risky Streets | 149 | ||||
| 19. The Art of Magic | 160 | ||||
| 20. Canticles | 173 | ||||
| 21. Squaring the Circle | 188 | ||||
| 22. Consolation and Valediction | 199 | ||||
| 23. Infinities | 214 | ||||
| 24. Return to Italy | 223 | ||||
| 25. The Witness | 244 | ||||
| 26. The Adversary | 251 | ||||
| 27. Gethsemane | 263 | ||||
| 28. Hell's Purgatory | 267 | ||||
| 29. The Sentence | 272 | ||||
| 30. The Field of Flowers | 278 | ||||
| Epilogue: The Four Rivers | 279 | ||||
| Appendix: Bruno's Sentence | 287 | ||||
| Notes | 291 | ||||
| Bibliography | 307 | ||||
| Acknowledgments | 317 | ||||
| Index | 319 |