Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance

by Gatti,Hilary; Gatti,Hilary

• ISBN13: 9780754605621
• ISBN10: 0754605620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-05-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from Italy to Northern Europe and England, and finally to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, today considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and for which he claimed liberty of expression.The papers in this volume derive from a conference commemorating the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death. Some focus on his experience in England, others on the Italian context of his thought and his impact upon others. Together they constitute a major new survey of the range of Bruno's philosophical activity, as well as evaluating his use of earlier cultural traditions and his influence on both contemporary and more modern themes and trends.

Author Biography

Hilary Gatti is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy. Giovanni Aquilecchia, formerly University College London Lars Berggren, University of Lund, Sweden Paul Richard Blum, Peter Pazmany University, Budapest Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Stuart Brown, Open University, Milton Keynes Leo Catana, University of Copenhagen Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck College, University of London Paul Colilli, Laurentian University, Canada Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Andrew Gregory, University College London Ramon G. Mendoza, International University of Florida Tiziana Provvidera, University College London Ingrid D. Rowland, Andrew Mellon Chair, American Academy in Rome Ernesto Schettino, National University of Mexico Leen Spruit, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' Elisabetta Tarantino, Oxford Brookes University Michael Wyatt, independent scholar

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Contributors	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xix
List of Abbreviations	xxi
Part One Introduction
Giordano Bruno as Philosopher of the Renaissance	3	(14)
Giovanni Aquilecchia
Part Two Bruno and Italy
The Image of Giordano Bruno	17	(34)
Lars Berggren
Philosophy versus Religion and Science versus Religion: the Trials of Bruno and Galileo	51	(46)
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Giordano Bruno and Neapolitan Neoplatonism	97	(24)
Ingrid D. Rowland
Images of Literary Memory in the Italian Dialogues: Some Notes on Giordano Bruno and Ludovico Ariosto	121	(24)
Lina Bolzoni
Part Three Bruno in England
Giordano Bruno and the Protestant Ethic	145	(22)
Hilary Gatti
John Charlewood, Printer of Giordano Bruno's Italian Dialogues, and his Book Production	167	(20)
Tiziana Provvidera
Giordano Bruno's Infinite Worlds in John Florio's Worlds of Words	187	(14)
Michael Wyatt
Ultima Thule: Contrasting Empires in Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper and Shakespeare's Tempest	201	(28)
Elisabetta Tarantino
Part Four Philosophical Themes
Giordano Bruno and Astrology	229	(22)
Leen Spruit
Simulacra et Signacula: Memory, Magic and Metaphysics in Brunian Mnemonics	251	(22)
Stephen Clucas
Metempsychosis and Monism in Bruno's nova filosofia	273	(26)
Ramon G. Mendoza
The Necessity of the Minima in the Nolan Philosophy	299	(28)
Ernesto Schettino
Meanings of `contractio' in Giordano Bruno's Sigillus sigillorum	327	(18)
Leo Catana
Part Five Influence and Tradition
Giordano Bruno's Mnemonics and Giambattista Vico's Recollective Philology	345	(20)
Paul Colilli
Macrocosm, Microcosm and the Circulation of the Blood: Bruno and Harvey	365	(16)
Andrew Gregory
Monadology and the Reception of Bruno in the Young Leibniz	381	(24)
Stuart Brown
Being a Modern Philosopher and Reading Giordano Bruno	405	(12)
Paul Richard Blum
Index	417