GIORDANO BRUNO/ PHILOSOPHER HERETIC

Gordano Bruno (15481600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowlands b iography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileoa thinker whose vision of the world prefigu res ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Brunos wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every c ertainty of religion and philosophy has been called into question, and reveals how he valiantly defended his ideas to the very end, when he was b...[Read more]