Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226730247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo—a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours.Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Bruno’s wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy has been called into question, and reveals how he valiantly defended his ideas to the very end, when he was burned at the stake as a heretic on Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori.“A loving and thoughtful account of Bruno’s life and thought, satires and sonnets, dialogues and lesson plans, vagabond days and star-spangled nights. Rowland has her reasons for preferring Bruno to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, even Galileo and Leonardo, and they’re good ones.”—John Leonard, Harper’s“Whatever else Bruno was, he was wild-minded and extreme, and Rowland communicates this, together with a sense of the excitement that his ideas gave him. Ingrid D. Ingrid D. Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. This is intellectual b
Five Stars thank you. Good Balance York Brun Luethje Ingrid Rowland strikes a good balance in her life of Giordano Bruno. She manages to create a compelling background to the man and also to give an overview of Bruno's vast range of interests: Poetry, Theology, Philosophy, Cosmology and Magic. Recommended.. A Man We Should Remember Better Timothy Haugh Giordano Bruno was a name I had come across in various histories of Christianity and/or the Renaissance that I've read through the years but I knew very little about him other than that he was considered a heretic and burned at the stake. When I saw this book, I thought it would be a good opportunity to find out a bit more about someone who was little more than a name to me. Reading this turned out to be quite an
. From Publishers Weekly You sometimes hear the name Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) invoked as a prequel to the life of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). The difference is that Bruno died for his beliefs (tied to a stake and set on fire in a public square in Rome), while Galileo recanted before the Inquisition and lived to advanced old age under house arrest. Rowland identifies Bruno in her subtitle as philosopher and heretic. He came into the world to light a fire, Rowland acknowledges of her subject. Legend connects their destinies, reducing Bruno's awful immolation to a cautionary tale that warns Galileo against too vigorous a defense of the dangerous new astronomy. All rights reserved. 8 pages of b&W illus. These two natural philosophers, countrymen of the Italian peni