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Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno
(1548–1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and
burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern
European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies
has shown a particular need for a fresh examination. This vibrant
bilingual edition, annotated by celebrated Bruno scholar Ingrid D.
Rowland, features the text in its original Italian alongside an
elegant, accurate English translation. On the Heroic Frenzies is at
once a philosophical dialogue, an anthology of love poetry, and a
collection of sonnets, songs, and emblems – sometimes borrowed
from other writers, but primarily Bruno’s own. Rowland’s
detailed introduction and extensive footnotes highlight the
philosophical sources, Biblical allusions, and biographical
elements that make Bruno’s work both richly conceived and often
challenging to understand. Providing cohesive insights into
Bruno’s text, Rowland’s edition of On the Heroic Frenzies is a
helpful guide for those new to his work.
This book provides an introduction to topological groups and the
structure theory of locally compact abelian groups, with a special
emphasis on Pontryagin-van Kampen duality, including a completely
self-contained elementary proof of the duality theorem. Further
related topics and applications are treated in separate chapters
and in the appendix.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
is Giordano Bruno’s first work of moral philosophy. It is
dedicated with a long Explicatory Letter to Elizabeth I’s most
cultured courtier, Sir Philip Sidney. It is a book about moral
reform, expelling the beasts of evil, and putting virtues in their
place. Its theme is presented as an allegorical drama in which
ancient myths assume modern meanings questioning the ways in which
moral and religious reform have been conceived in both the ancient
world and the cultures of Renaissance Europe. This new Italian
text, based on the original printed text of 1584 held in the
British Library, presents a less modernized version than those
presently available, while maintaining a modern page format. The
aim is to provide a text closer to the sound of Bruno’s original
mix of classical Tuscan Italian and Neapolitan dialectical forms.
This edition also presents a new translation designed to render
Bruno’s complex and baroque Italian into easily readable modern
English. Hilary Gatti introduces The Expulsion of the Triumphant
Beast, underlining Bruno’s meta-literary reflection on the nature
of allegory and myth as well as the dramatic structure of his text.
Drama, philosophy, and religion combine in this work to give an
epic dimension to the perennial cosmic battle between evil and
good.
The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), one
of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at
the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in
1600. The primary evidence against him was the book "Spaccio de la
bestia trionfante," a daring indictment of the church that abounded
in references to classical Greek mythology, Egyptian religion
(especially the worship of Isis), Hermeticism, magic, and
astrology.
The author of more than sixty works on mathematics, science,
ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory, and esoteric
mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought.
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