Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early
modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's
biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus,
Shakespeare, and Galileo--a thinker whose vision of the world
prefigures ours.
Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Bruno's
wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty
of religion and philosophy has been called into question, and
reveals how he valiantly defended his ideas to the very end, when
he was burned at the stake as a heretic on Rome's Campo de'
Fiori.
"A loving and thoughtful account of Bruno's] life and thought,
satires and sonnets, dialogues and lesson plans, vagabond days and
star-spangled nights. . . . Ingrid D. Rowland has her reasons for
preferring Bruno to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, even
Galileo and Leonardo, and they're good ones."--John Leonard,
"Harper's
""Whatever else Bruno was, he was wild-minded and extreme, and
Rowland communicates this, together with a sense of the excitement
that his ideas gave him. . . . It's that feeling for the
explosiveness of the period, and Rowland's] admiration of Bruno for
participating in it--indeed, dying for it--that is the central and
most cherishable quality of the biography."--Joan Acocella, "New
Yorker
""Rowland tells this great story in moving, vivid prose,
concentrating as much on Bruno's thought as on his life. . . . His
restless mind, as she makes clear, not only explored but
transformed the heavens."--Anthony Grafton, "New York Review of
Books
"" Bruno] seems to have been an unclassifiable mixture of
foul-mouthed Neapolitan mountebank, loquacious poet, religious
reformer, scholastic philosopher, and slightly wacky
astronomer."--Anthony Gottlieb, "New York Times Book Review
""A marvelous feat of scholarship. . . . This is intellectual
biography at its best."--Peter N. Miller, "New Republic
""An excellent starting point for anyone who wants to rediscover
the historical figure concealed beneath the cowl on Campo de'
Fiori."--Paula Findlen, "Nation"
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