Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

by Ingrid D. Rowland

Book Overview

Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. 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.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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809095246
• ISBN13: 9780809095247
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"