Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991
Was Giordano Bruno a Mole?
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
by John Bossy
Yale University Press, 294 pp., $29.95
One of the most delightful experiences, for a scholar, occurs when, afterlong search, or perhaps by chance, he discovers a small key which is found to open a long-locked door and reveal, beyond it, a totally unexpected new vista. John Bossy, known as a historian of post-Reformation English Catholicism, has discovered such a key, and the vista which it reveals will surprise, perhaps shock, all who have ever wondered what lay behind that door: the door which leads into the hidden life of that most mysterious of the 'philosophers of Nature' of the Renaissance, Giordano Bruno.
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