Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six
philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in
London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology
founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to
infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary
systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and
reducing earth to a tiny speck in an overwhelmingly immense cosmos,
Bruno offers a lively description of his clash of opinions with the
conservative academics and theologians he argued with in Oxford and
London. This volume, containing what has recently been claimed as
the final version of Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper, presents a new
translation based on a newly edited text, with critical comment
that takes account of the most current discussion of the textual,
historical, cosmological and philosophical issues raised in this
dialogue. It considers Bruno's work as a seminal text of the late
European renaissance.
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