Essays on Giordano Bruno /

Essays on Giordano Bruno / / Hilary Gatti.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Gatti, Hilary,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 17 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: Beginning as Negation in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruno
  • PART 1. BRUNO AND THE NEW SCIENCE
  • 1. Between Magic and Magnetism: Bruno's Cosmology at Oxford
  • 2. Bruno's Copernican Diagrams
  • 3. Bruno and the New Atomism
  • 4. The Multiple Languages of the New Science
  • PART 2. BRUNO IN BRITAIN
  • 5. Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno
  • 6. The Sense of an Ending in Bruno's Heroici furori
  • 7. Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet
  • 8. Bruno's Candelaio and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist
  • 9. Bruno and the Stuart Court Masques
  • 10. Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 11. Bruno and the Victorians
  • PART 3. BRUNO'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
  • 12. Bruno's Natural Philosophy
  • 13. Bruno's Use of the Bible in His Italian Philosophical Dialogues
  • 14. Science and Magic: The Resolution of Contraries
  • 15. Bruno and Metaphor
  • EPILOGUE: Why Bruno's "A Tranquil Universal Philosophy" Finished in a Fire
  • Bibliography of Cited Works by and on Giordano Bruno
  • Index

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