The complete online text of Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater.

The English author Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was the most influential figure in the Esthetic movement of the late 19th century. His writings reveal a mind of sensibility and discrimination, embodying its judgments in carefully wrought prose. By th...

Walter Pater is important to English literary history because he combines a commitment to the romantic theory that art is essentially an expression of personality with a sympathetic response to the scientific and historical studies of the Victorian perio...

Walter Pater is important to English literary history because he combines a commitment to the romantic theory that art is essentially an expression of personality with a sympathetic response to the scientific and historical studies of the Victorian perio...

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...