Giordano Bruno
Subtitle: philosopher/heretic
By: Ingrid D. Rowland.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226730240
Subjects: Bruno, Giordano, -- 1548-1600; Philosophers -- Italy -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Originally published in 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the hooded friar; title: A most solemn act of justice; title: The Nolan philosopher; title: "Napoli e tutto il mondo"; title: "The world is fine as it is"; title: "I have, in effect, harbored doubts"; title: "I came into this world to light a fire"; title: Footprints in the forest; title: A thousand worlds; title: Art and astronomy; title: Trouble again; title: Holy asininity; title: The signs of the times; title: A lonely sparrow; title: Thirty; title: The gifts of the magi; title: The song of Circe; title: "Go up to Oxford"; title: Down risky streets; title: The art of magic; title: Canticles; title: Squaring the circle; title: Consolation and valediction; title: Infinities; title: Return to Italy; title: The witness; title: The adversary; title: Gethsemane; title: Hell's purgatory; title: The sentence; title: The field of flowers; title: Epilogue: the four rivers; title: Appendix: Bruno's sentence.