Giordano Bruno: philosopher/heretic

A Note on Translation

Prologue: The Hooded Friar

1. A Most Solemn Act of Justice

2. The Nolan Philosopher

3. "Napoli e tutto il mondo"

4. "The world is fine as it is"

5. "I have, in effect, harbored doubts"

6. "I came into this world to light a fire"

7. Footprints in the Forest

8. A Thousand Worlds

9. Art and Astronomy

10. Trouble Again

11. Holy Asininity

12. The Signs of the Times

13. A Lonely Sparrow

14. Thirty

15. The Gifts of the Magi

16. The Song of Circe

17. "Go up to Oxford"

18. Down Risky Streets

19. The Art of Magic

20. Canticles

21. Squaring the Circle

22. Consolation and Valediction

23. Infinities

24. Return to Italy

25. The Witness

26. The Adversary

27. Gethsemane

28. Hell's Purgatory

29. The Sentence

30. The Field of Flowers

Epilogue: The Four Rivers

Appendix. Bruno's Sentence

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index