Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance

Hilary Gatti, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy Giovanni Aquilecchia, Lars Berggren, Maurice Finocchiaro, Ingrid D. Rowland, Lina Bolzoni, Hilary Gatti, Tiziana Provvidera, Michael Wyatt, Elisabetta Tarantino, Leen Spruit, Stephen Clucas, Ramon G. Mendoza, T. Ernesto Schettino, Leo Catana, Paul Colilli, Andrew Gregory, Stuart Brown, Paul Richard Blum.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Giordano Bruno as philosopher of the Renaissance, Giovanni Aquilecchia; Bruno and Italy: The image of Giordano Bruno, Lars Berggren; Philosophy versus religion and science versus religion: the trials of Bruno and Galileo, Maurice Finocchiaro; Giordano Bruno and Neapolitan neoplatonism, Ingrid D. Rowland; Images of literary memory in the Italian dialogues: some notes on Giordano Bruno and Ludovico Ariosto, Lina Bolzoni; Bruno in England: Giordano Bruno and the Protestant ethic, Hilary Gatti; John Charlewood, printer of Giordano Bruno’s Italian dialogues, and his book production, Tiziana Provvidera; Giordano Bruno’s infinite worlds in John Florio’s Worlds of Words, Michael Wyatt; Ultima Thule: contrasting empires in Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper and Shakespeare’s Tempest, Elisabetta Tarantino; Philosophical Themes: Giordano Bruno and astrology, Leen Spruit; Simulacra e Signacula: memory, magic and metaphysics in Brunian mnemonics, Stephen Clucas; Metempsychosis and monism in Bruno’s nova filosofia, Ramon G. Mendoza; The necessity of the minima in the Nolan philosophy, Ernesto Schettino; Meanings of ’contractio’ in Giordano Bruno’s Sigillus sigillorum, Leo Catana; Influence and Tradition: Giordano Bruno’s mnemonics and Giambattista Vico’s recollective philology, Paul Colilli; Macrocosm, microcosm and the circulation of the blood: Bruno and Harvey, Andrew Gregory; Monadology and the reception of Bruno in the young Leibniz, Stuart Brown; Being a modern philosopher and reading Giordano Bruno, Paul Richard Blum; Index.