The Italian philosopher and poet Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) attempted to deal with the implications of the Copernican universe. Although he made no scientific discoveries, his ideas had much influence on later scientists and philosophers. Giordano...

Giordano Bruno was a philospher/theologian and an outspoken critic of many of the religious, philosophical, and scientific beliefs of his time. Although he was not a scientist and had limited understanding of disciplines like astronomy, he was a strong...

BRUNO, GIORDANO (1548–1600), Italian philosopher. Bruno was a brilliant and encyclopedic though erratic thinker of the Italian Renaissance, a man who synthesized and transformed thought in terms of the situation of his own times. Born in Nola,...

1548-1600 Italian philosopher and scientist who wrote on a number of topics, including memory and the effect of language on human behavior. Initially a Dominican friar, Bruno's unorthodox views caused him trouble, so he left Italy and traveled...

Bruno, Giordano(1548 123. White, Michael. The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition. New York: Morrow, 2002. Yates, Frances A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. New York:...

For the lunar crater, see Giordano Bruno (crater). Giordano Bruno (1548, Nola – February 17, 1600, Rome) was an Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. Bruno is known for his mnemonic system based upon organized knowledge and as an...

Giordano Bruno's philosophical dialogues 'Lo spaccio della bestia trionfante' influenced not only Thomas Carew's masque 'Coelum Britannicum' but also other Stuart court masques. These may be seen in a reading of Daniel's 'Tethys' Festival' and the 'The Triumph of Peace' written by John Shirley...

Giordano Bruno in Flames (Burned at the stake, February 17, 1600) A breeze's aftermath of sizzled flesh licked the strafed cobbles of Campo di Fiori, bore on its serpent's back winding through brush the last whiff of Bruno, heretical meat. Four centuries have burned,...

Self-taught astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker wanted one thing: to be the best. The trick was getting others to let him try. Banneker (1731-1806), a black American, was born near Baltimore. Though a free man and a brilliant one, he had to overcome racial barriers...

An English educator, historian, and author, Yates is best known and widely respected for her books on the Renaissance. In the following essay, Yates examines Bruno's use of emblems in Eroici furori, arguing that by describing the divine with Petrarchan conceits, Bruno establishes a link between his work and Elizabethan poetry.

In the following excerpt, Gatti tracks Bruno's European wanderings, discussing the influential ideas and writings produced by the philosopher during this period of travel.

In this essay, Gosselin examines the religious aspect of Bruno's work, maintaining that despite his alleged heresy, the philosopher retained some Roman Catholic beliefs at the time of his death.