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Book SynopsisGathers essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life.
Trade Review"Gatti's specific attention in giving an account of the different critical interpretations of Bruno's philosophy and of the status quo of current research makes this book a particularly worthwhile read for students and scholars of Bruno and of the sixteenth century in general."--Anna Laura Puliafito, Renaissance Quarterly "This book provides an important update to the scholarly dialogue on Bruno's science and the reception of his thought in subsequent centuries. Students of Bruno's thought will benefit most from the historiographic sections, while scholars of the intellectual history of the seventeenth through the late twentieth centuries will profit from the well-balanced assessment of Bruno's science that is just sufficient for understanding his reoccurring role as an intellectual pioneer."--David Porreca, Sixteenth Century Journal
Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION Beginning as Negation in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruno 1 PART 1: BRUNO AND THE NEW SCIENCE Chapter 1: Between Magic and Magnetism: Bruno's Cosmology at Oxford 17 Chapter 2: Bruno's Copernican Diagrams 40 Chapter 3: Bruno and the New Atomism 70 Chapter 4: The Multiple Languages of the New Science 91 PART 2: BRUNO IN BRITAIN Chapter 5: Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno 115 Chapter 6: The Sense of an Ending in Bruno's Heroici furori 127 Chapter 7: Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet 140 Chapter 8: Bruno's Candelaio and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist 161 Chapter 9: Bruno and the Stuart Court Masques 172 Chapter 10: Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 201 Chapter 11: Bruno and the Victorians 220 PART 3: BRUNO'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE Chapter 12: Bruno's Natural Philosophy 249 Chapter 13: Bruno's Use of the Bible in His Italian Philosophical Dialogues 264 Chapter 14: Science and Magic: The Resolution of Contraries 280 Chapter 15: Bruno and Metaphor 297 EPILOGUE: Why Bruno's "A Tranquil Universal Philosophy" Finished in a Fire 309 Bibliography of Cited Works by and on Giordano Bruno 325 Index 335
