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Acknowledgments
My thanks to the extraordinary patience of my editor, Paul Elie, to whom this book owes its existence, and to Paul Richard Blum, Lina Bolzoni, Eugenio Canone, Donald Carroll, Thomas Cerbu, Maria Ann Conelli, Jon Cooper, Brian Copenhaver, Karen de León-Jones, Germana Ernst, Mordechai Feingold, Jonathan Galassi, Anthony Grafton, Dario Ianneci, James Kalsbeek, Eugenio Lo Sardo, John Marino, Peter Mazur, Mario Pereira, Dana Prescott, Pasquale Siciliani, Robert Silvers, Frank and Margaret Snowden, Joanne Spurza, Daniel Stein-Kokin, Haris Vlavianos, and the Libreria ASEQ in Rome, where Edoardo and Luca have kept me supplied with books on or by Giordano Bruno for nearly three decades. Thanks also to the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana; the Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome; the Biblioteca Angelica, Rome; the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome; the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples; the Archivio di Stato, Venice; the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; the University Library, Cambridge; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the British Library. Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, and the Getty Research Institute facilitated research and writing at various stages; at Bellagio, my particular thanks to Gianna Celli, now director emerita; at the Getty Research Institute, to Michael Roth (now president of Wesleyan University), Charles Salas, Susan Allen, Wim DeWit, and the entire Department of Special Collections. The library of the great Bruno scholar Frances Yates, now owned by the Getty Research Institute, provided extraordinary tangible inspiration. Thanks to my superb copy editor, Ingrid Sterner, for saving me from an infinite universe of lapsus calami. I owe thanks of a different kind to my parents: to my father for his broad view of science and to both of my parents for their example of unflagging integrity. The late Father Athanasius Kircher, S.J., read Giordano Bruno faithfully when it was still dangerous to do so, and despite the centuries that divide us, he had, like the other people and institutions here enumerated, more than a minor role in the shaping of this book. Above all, my thanks to the two people to whom it is dedicated: Hilary Gatti, infallible guide to the intricacies of Bruno’s thought, and Avvocato Dario Guidi Federzoni, who revealed the legal thriller latent in a tragedy.
Index
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Abarbanel, Leone
Abbot, George
Abraham
Academia Julia
Accademia degli Oziosi
Acteon
Aegidius (Pontano)
Aeneas
Aeneid, The (Virgil)
Agatha, Saint
Agnes, Saint
Agostino da Montalcino, Fra
Agrippa, Cornelius
Albania
Albigensians
alchemy
Aldobrandini, Cardinal, see Clement VIII, Pope
Alexander the Great
Alexander VI, Pope
Alexandria
Alfonso of Aragon
algebra
Altomonte, Agostino
Amphitrite
analogies, magic based on
Anaxagoras
Andria, Dominican college at
Angevin kings
Anglican Church; Thirty-nine Articles of Religion of
Angoulême, Henri d’
anima (soul)
Anthony, Saint
anti-Semitism
Antonius, Bishop of Florence
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Antwerp
Apis bull
Apollo
Aquilecchia, Giovanni
Aquinas, Thomas; Aristotle as inspiration for; at College of San Domenico; Jesuits as followers of; memory and mental discipline of; in Paris; Scholasticism of; transubstantiation questioned by
Arabic numerals
Arabs; as astronomers
Arcadia (Sannazaro)
architecture; Gothic; mental, in artificial memory
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Aristarchus
Aristophanes
Aristotle; ancient philosophers preceding; Beza’s strict adherence to; Bruno’s refutation of; cosmic system of; Jesuits as followers of; on memory; metaphysics of; misogyny of; Scholasticism rooted in
arithmetic
Arius
Armenians
Armeno, Zorzi
Arrigone, Pompeo Cardinal
Arrigoni da Verona, Fra Celestino
Ars Magna (Llull)
art; in Prague; religious; of Spanish Court; Venetian Inquisition and
artificial memory
Art of Deformations, The (Bruno)
Ascoli, Hieronymo Bernerio Cardinal d’
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Supper, The (Bruno)
asinità
Assayer, The (Galileo)
astrology
astronomy; Arab; instruments for; mathematics and; poetic texts on; see also universe
Astrophel and Stella (Sidney)
Athens, ancient
atomic theory
Augustine, Saint
Augustinians
Augustus I, Duke of Wittenberg
Austria
Avalos, Maria d’
Aylen, Leo
Azzolini, Decio Cardinal
Bagga, Demetrio Lecca
Baglioni, Lucrezia
Balbani, Niccolo
Banquet in
the House of Levi (Veronese)
Barbadico, Sebastiano
Barberini, Francesco Cardinal
Beccaria, Ipolito Maria
Bell, Adam Schall von
Bellarmine, Robert Cardinal
Bellini, Giovanni
Benedict XVI, Pope
Benedictines
Bennett, Alan
Benzon, Antonio
Bergamo
Berjon, Jean
Bernardino of Siena, Saint
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Besler, Hieronymus
Beza, Theodor
Bible; Ecclesiastes; Genesis; Gospels; Jeremiah; Job; Lamentations; Psalms; Revelation; Song of Songs; Wisdom of Solomon
Blackfriars
blasphemy; punishment for
Blindness (Epicurio)
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bohemia
Bologna, University of
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Book of Martyrs (Foxe)
Book on Games of Chance (Cardano)
Borghese, Camillo Cardinal
Borgias
Bossy, John
Botero, Giovanni
Bourges, massacre of Protestants in
Brahe, Sophie
Brahe, Tycho
Brant, Sebastian
Braunschweig
Brezula, Battista
Brictano, Giacomo
Bruniana & Campanelliana (journal)
Bruno, Giordano: Aristotle rejected by; arraignment by Inquisition of; arrest of; arrival in Naples of; asinità concept of; astronomical studies of; Bellarmine’s propositions against; birth of; childhood of; continued influence of; cosmology of, see infinite universe; defiance of Inquisition by; defrocking of; degradation of; desire to return to Church of; divinity of Jesus doubted by; extradition to Rome of; excommunications of; execution of; family background of; final vows of; forbidden books read by; forest imagery of; in Frankfurt; as fugitive from Inquisition; in Geneva; in Genoa; in Helmstedt; imprisonment of; intellectual versatility of; interrogations of; on Jews; John Paul II’s refusal to pardon; journey from Nola to Naples of; in London; magic of; mathematics of; memory techniques of, see memory, art of; Mocenigo’s accusations against; Nola described by; in Noli; novitiate of; in Order of Preachers; ordination of; at Oxford; in Padua; in Paris; in Prague; poetry writing of; repentance of; sentencing of; “solitary sparrow” image of; statue in Campo de’ Fiori of; teaching methods of; Teofilo’s influence on; theological education of; in Toulouse; variety of writings of; in Venice; vernacular writing of; Vita’s investigation of; Wheel of Fortune image of; witnesses against; in Wittenberg; works of, see titles of specific works; in Zurich
Bruno, Giovanni (Giordano’s father)
bubonic plague, see plague
Bucer, Martin
Cairo; observatory at; population of
Cajetan, Thomas Cardinal
Calcidius
calculus
Caligula, obelisk of
Calleir, Raoul
Callippus
Calvin, John
Calvinists
Cambrai, Collège de
Cambridge University
Camorra
Campagna
Campanella, Fra Tommaso
Campo de’ Fiori (“Field of Flowers,” Rome); execution of heretics in; statue of Bruno in
Candelaio, Il, see Candlemaker, The
Candlemaker, The (Bruno)
Canone, Eugenio
Cantus Circaeus (Bruno)
Canzoniere (Petrarch)
Capitoline Museum
Capuchins
Caracciolo, Gian Galeazzo, Marchese di Vico
Caracciolo, Fra Teofilo
Carafa, Alfonso, Duke of Nocera
Carafa, Antonio Cardinal
Carafa, Fabrizio
Carafa, Giovanni Pietro Cardinal
Carafa da Sanseverino, Galeotto
Cardano, Gerolamo
Carmelites
Casaubon, Isaac
Castelnau, Catherine-Marie de
Castelnau, Madame de
Castelnau, Michel de, Lord of Mauvissière
Castel Sant’Angelo (Rome)
Castor
Catherine of Alexandria, Saint
Catherine of Siena, Saint
Catholic Church; accusations of blasphemies against; ancient Fathers of; Anglican objections to; Bruno’s attempted reconciliations with; Cardano’s prognostications on; careers for second sons in; converts to; dissidents in; Elizabethan England and; escaped slaves received into; excommunication from; exorcists of; freethinkers in; independence of modern Rome from; institutional, Jesus as symbol of; jubilees of; and massacres of Protestants; obedience of priests in; policy of persuasion in; in Prague; Protestant skepticism about; reformers versus traditionalists within; ritual separation from; sacraments of; strict interpretation of Bible by; topics contested by Protestants and; view of divine justice of; wealth and corruption of; see also Inquisition
Cause, Principle, and Unity (Bruno)
Cavallini, Pietro
Cecaria (Epicuro)
Cecilia, Saint
Celeste, Girolamo
Cellini, Benvenuto
Cenci family
Ceres
Cerriglio tavern (Naples)
Cervini, Marcello
Cesi, Count Federico
Chambéry
Charing Cross (London)
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IX, King of France
Charlewood, John
China; trade routes to
Christian I, Duke of Wittenberg
Christian theology: Aquinas’s systematic account of; and divinity of Jesus; education in; Hermetic texts and; Imprimatur of works of; Kabbalah and; orthodox Dominican resistance to challenges to; political action linked to; reconciliation of Platonic philosophy and; of Teofilo
Cicala, Odoardo
Cicero
Ciotti, Giovanni Battista
Circe
City Council of Rome
Clavis magna (Bruno)
Clavius, Christoph
Clement VIII, Pope
Cobham, Henry
Colleoni, Bartolomeo
colonialism, European
Colonna, Prince Ascanio
Colonna, Vittoria
Columbus, Christopher
commedia dell’arte
Commentaries (Erasmus)
Commentariolus (Copernicus)
Commentary on the Sphere of Sacrobosco (Clavius)
Communion
Confraternity of Saint John the Beheaded
Consolatory Oration (Bruno)
Constantinople; population of; trade routes through
Contarini, Gasparo Cardinal
Copernicus, Nicolaus; Clavius’s criticism of; mathematics of; sun-centered universe of
Coptic Christians
Corbinelli, Jacopo
Corpo di Napoli
Cotin, Guillaume
Council of Trent
Cranmer, Thomas
Crispo, Fra Giordano
Critias (Plato)
Crusius, Martin
Cusanus, Nicolaus
Cyllenian Ass, The (Bruno)
dactylic hexameter
Dalmatia
Dante
Da Ponte, Lorenzo
De compendiosa architectura et complemnto artis Lullii (Bruno)
Dee, John
Defense in Favor of the Reply to Eight Propositions Against Which the Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord Cardinal Bellarmine Has Written (Marsilio)
De gli heroici furori, see Heroic Frenzies, The
Del Bene, Piero
Democritus of Abdera
demons
De partu Virginus (Sannazaro)
De rerum natura (Lucretius)
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Copernicus)
De sphaera, see On the Sphere
De umbris idearum (Bruno)
Devereux, Penelope
Devereux, Walter, first Earl of
Essex
De vita coelitus comparanda, see On Living the Heavenly Life
Dezza, Pietro Cardinal
Dialoghi d’amore (Abarbanel)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo)
Dialogues on Love (Abarbanel)
Dialogues on Love (Ebreo)
Diana, as huntress
Dicson, Alexander
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)
Digression in Praise of the Ass (Agrippa)
Dionysius the Areopagite
Discourse on the Ass (Pino)
Disputations (Bellarmine)
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
Domenico da Nocera, Fra
Dominic, Saint
Dominicans; challenges to Christian orthodoxy battled by; colleges of; in England; in Genoa; habit of, abandoned by Bruno; Inquisition served by; martyrdom of; memory training of; movement from city to city of; in Naples, (see also San Domenico Maggiore); in Padua; in Paris; philosophical rigor of; rise of; rivalry of Jesuits and; in Salerno; Scholasticism of; Spanish cruelty in Mexico denounced by; standard theological textbook of; transubstantiation practiced by; in Venice
Donatus
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
“Donkey’s Testament, The” (song)
Drake, Francis
Drinking Party, The (Aylen)
Dudley, Robert, first Earl of Leicester
Dürer, Albrecht
Earth-centered universe
Ebreo, Leone
Eclogues (Sannazaro)
ecumenism
Egidio Antonini da Viterbo, Fra, see Giles of Viterbo
Eglin, Raphael
Egyptians; Christian
Einstein, Albert
Elizabeth I, Queen of England; culture and tolerance of; proficiency in foreign languages of; Spanish aggression toward England of; tributes in Bruno’s writings to
Endymion
England; burning of martyrs in; Church of, see Anglican Church; colonialism of; Dee’s journey to Prague from; Jesuits in; Latin as language of education in; parliamentary system in; Punchand-Judy shows in; rudeness in; Spanish aggression toward; see also London; Oxford University
Ensisheim meteorite
Epicurean philosophy
Epicuro, Marcantonio
Erasmus, Desiderius
Etruscans
Eucharist
Eudoxus
excommunication; from Calvinism; for reading indexed books
exorcists
Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, The (Bruno)
Favaro, Anton
Felix, Saint
Ferdinand, King of Aragon
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