The Ash Wednesday Supper : : A New Translation / / Giordano Bruno; ed. by Hilary Gatti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Bruno, Giordano,
• HerausgeberIn: Gatti, Hilary,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and reducing earth to a tiny speck in an overwhelmingly immense cosmos, Bruno offers a lively description of his clash of opinions with the conservative academics and theologians he argued with in Oxford and London. This volume, containing what has recently been claimed as the final version of Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper, presents a new translation based on a newly edited text, with critical comment that takes account of the most current discussion of the textual, historical, cosmological and philosophical issues raised in this dialogue. It considers Bruno's work as a seminal text of the late European renaissance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- List of Figures -- LA CENA DE LE CENERI / THE ASH WEDNESDAY SUPPER -- Proemiale epistola / Introductory Letter -- Dialogo Primo / Dialogue I -- Dialogo Secondo / Dialogue II -- Dialogo Terzo / Dialogue III -- Dialogo Quarto / Dialogue IV -- Dialogo Quinto / Dialogue V -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index