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Giordano Bruno : philosopher/heretic / Ingrid D. Rowland.
Van Pelt Library B783.Z7 R595 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.
- Bruno, Giordano.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Hooded Friar 3
- 1 A Most Solemn Act of Justice 9
- 2 The Nolan Philosopher 14
- 3 "Napoli e tutto il mondo" 19
- 4 "The world is fine as it is" 25
- 5 "I have, in effect, harbored doubts" 29
- 6 "I came into this world to light a fire" 38
- 7 Footprints in the Forest 45
- 8 A Thousand Worlds 53
- 9 Art and Astronomy 62
- 10 Trouble Again 70
- 11 Holy Asininity 77
- 12 The Signs of the Times 87
- 13 A Lonely Sparrow 96
- 14 Thirty 104
- 15 The Gifts of the Magi 116
- 16 The Song of Circe 132
- 17 "Go up to Oxford" 139
- 18 Down Risky Streets 149
- 19 The Art of Magic 160
- 20 Canticles 173
- 21 Squaring the Circle 188
- 22 Consolation and Valediction 199
- 23 Infinities 214
- 24 Return to Italy 223
- 25 The Witness 244
- 26 The Adversary 251
- 27 Gethsemane 263
- 28 Hell's Purgatory 267
- 29 The Sentence 272
- 30 The Field of Flowers 278
- Epilogue: The Four Rivers 279
- Appendix Bruno's Sentence 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-315) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780809095247
- 0809095246
- OCLC:
- 180751451
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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