Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic

by Ingrid D. Rowland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226730247
• ISBN13: 9780226730240
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"