Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verv[...]

Giordano Bruno's "Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo" ("The Cabala of Pegasus") grew out of the Italian philosopher's experiences lecturing and debating at Oxford in early 1584. This volume contains both the English and Italian versions of the work as well as annotations.[...]

Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate issues as the role of Christ as mediator and[...]

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as his heterodox view of man's relationship to God. The concept of contraction is twofold. In the ontologi[...]

'Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling', Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600. Bruno's[...]

Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies has shown a particular need for a fresh examination. T[...]

Forfatteren viser i denne boken den viktige rollen mange okkulte retninger spilte i renessansen, og hvordan disse var med på å forme selve epoken og ettertiden. I fokus er filosofen, naturvitenskapsmannen og den kjetterdømte Giordano Bruno. Avgjørende for renessansens okkultisme var gjenoppdagel[...]

När Giordano Bruno den 17 februari 1600 brändes på bål på Campo dei Fiori i Rom ändades ett liv som hade präglats av opposition mot kyrkans dogmer om världsalltet.

Under hela sitt liv tvingades Bruno flacka omkring i Europa på flykt undan de kyrkliga myndigheterna. Han förkunnad[...]