Volume 5, Number 10 · December 23, 1965
Renaissance Man
By Frances A. Yates
The Heroic Frenzies
by Giordano Bruno, translated with Introduction and notes by Paul Eugene Memmo Jr.
North Carolina, 274 pp., $5.50
Born near Naples in 1548, burned at the stake in Rome in 1600, Giordano Bruno is one of the most striking figures among the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance, and has been one of the most misunderstood. His old reputation as martyr for modern science and the Copernican theory has had to be radically revised in the light of better understanding of the Hermetic basis of his philosophy, and this involves a new approach to the works which he wrote in England between 1583 and 1585. Among these is the remarkable one, the title of which is here translated as The Heroic Frenzies, in which Bruno presents his philosophy in the form of love poetry and love emblems.
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