The Ash Wednesday supper
"Giordano Bruno wrote this dialogue in 1583. The Ash Wednesday Supper is concerned with two major themes: a cosmological theme concerning the new post Copernican astronomy and Bruno's infinitist reading of it; and the other a social/historical theme concerning the english society, both high and low, of which Bruno was a guest and with which he developed a complex and often conflictual relationship."--
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- Full title :The Ash Wednesday supper / Giordano Bruno ; a new translation of La cena de le ceneri with the Italian text annotated and introduced by Hilary Gatti.
Summary
"Giordano Bruno wrote this dialogue in 1583. The Ash Wednesday Supper is concerned with two major themes: a cosmological theme concerning the new post Copernican astronomy and Bruno's infinitist reading of it; and the other a social/historical theme concerning the english society, both high and low, of which Bruno was a guest and with which he developed a complex and often conflictual relationship."--
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
Notes
"Published in collaboration with The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies."
The Physical Object
- Description:lxiv, 302 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781487521400, 1487521405, 1487501447, 9781487501440
- oclc:on1027034426
- LC Classification:QB36.C8
- Dewey Decimal:520
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