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.
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."--
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- Publication Date:2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
Notes
"A new translation of La cena de le ceneri with the Italian text annotated and introduced by Hilary Gatti."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (lxiv, 302 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781487513184, 1487513186
- oclc:on1027787330
- LC Classification:QB36.C8
- Dewey Decimal:520
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. A Note on the Text -- 3. Complete Italian Text: newly edited according to the so-called vulgate version -- 4. Translation of the Dedication (+ notes) -- 5. Translation of Dialogue 1 (+ notes) -- 6. Translation of Dialogue 2 (+ notes) -- 7. Translation of Dialogue 3 (+ notes)8. Translation of Dialogue 4 (+ notes) -- 9. Translation of Dialogue -- 5 (+ notes)10. Appendix: Alternative Italian text of folio D -- 11. Appendix: Alternative English translation of folio.
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