Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809095246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars thank you. York Brun Luethje said Good Balance. 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 eye-opening experience.On a purely informational level, there is a lot here. Rowland shared a number of anecdotes about Bruno's life which have stuck in my mind: his getting caught with a forbidden book in the latrine, the
He was a true heretic by the Catholic Church's definition, for he doubted the divinity of Jesus, the virginity of Mary and the transubstantiation of the Communion wafer into the body of Christ. 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. . As a philosopher, Bruno went far beyond the Sun-centered cosmology of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). Bruno managed, in the span of his 52 years, to be excommunicated twice—from the Calvinist Church as well as the Catholic. From Publishers Weekly You sometimes hear the name Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) invoked as a prequel to the life of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). He came into the world to light a fire, Rowland acknowledges of her subject. Rowland identifies Bruno in her subtitle
His eloquence and his courage inspired thinkers across Europe, finding expression in the work of Shakespeare and Galileo. Rowland’s pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth—and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Writing with great verve and sympathy for her protagonist, Rowland traces Bruno’s wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy had been called into question and shows him valiantly defending his ideas (and his right to maintain them) to the very end. Ingrid D. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome’s Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the “magic Prague” of Emperor Rudolph II. Giordano Bruno allows us to encounter a legendary European figure as if for the first time.. Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. An incisive, independent thinker just when natural philosophy was transformed into modern science, he was also a writer of sublime talent