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Book SynopsisGiordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated.
One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way for a revaluation of the esoteric influences at play during the onset of the modern era. Today, when traditional answers about the universe and our place within it are under increasing scrutiny, Giordono Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition proves itself a true classic for our time.
Trade Review'This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it.' – Hugh Trevor-Roper, The New Statesman
'Explodes the idea that the intellectual foundations of the Renaissance were exclusively logical and coherent, and lets back the mysterious into history' – BBC History Magazine
'Explodes the idea that the intellectual foundations of the Renaissance were exclusively logical and coherent, and lets back the mysterious into history.' – BBC History Magazine
'Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Historians of ideas, of religion and of science will study it. Some of them, after reading it, will have to think again. That will be no bad thing.' – The New Statesman
Table of ContentsPreface, Abbreviations, Introduction J. B. Trapp
1. Hermes Trismegistus
2. Ficino’s Pimander and the Asclepius
3. Hermes Trismegistus and Magic
4. Ficino’s Natural Magic
5. Pico della Mirandola and Cabalist Magic
6. Pseudo-Dionysius and the Theology of a Christian Magus
7. Cornelius Agrippa’s Survey of Renaissance Magic
8. Renaissance Magic and Science
9. Against Magic: (1) Theological Objections; (2) The Humanist Tradition
10. Religious Hermetism in the Sixteenth Century
11. Giordano Bruno: First Visit to Paris
12. Giordano Bruno in England: The Hermetic Reform
13. Giordano Bruno in England: The Hermetic Philosophy
14. Giordano Bruno and the Cabala
15. Giordano Bruno: Heroic Enthusiast and Elizabethan
16. Giordano Bruno: Second Visit to Paris
17. Giordano Bruno in Germany
18. Giordano Bruno: Last Published Work
19. Giordano Bruno: Return to Italy
20. Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella
21. After Hermes Trismegistus was Dated
22. Hermes Trismegistus and the Fludd Controversies.
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