About this title: 'Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling', Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600. Bruno's most representative work, "Spaccio de la bestia trionfante" ("The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast"), published in an atmosphere of secrecy in 1584 and never referred to as anything but blasphemous for more than a century, was singled out by the church tribunal at the summation of his final trial ...
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Description: Good. By Giordano Bruno, Arthur D. Imerti; ISBN: 0803261047; Pub. : University Of Nebraska Press; Pub. Date: June, 1992; Media: Paperback; Weight: 16 oz.; A few notes penned in margins, minor curl of cover, minor corner wear, all else is excellent. by Giordano Bruno, Arthur D. Imerti; ISBN: 0803261047; Pub. : University Of Nebraska Press; Pub. Date: June, 1992; Media: Paperback; Weight: 16 oz.; A few notes penned in margins, minor curl of cover, minor corner wear, all else is excellent.. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1992-06
ISBN-13:9780803261044ISBN:0803261047
Description: VG+ Very Good in NONE jacket. Trade Paperback. Light rubbing to cover and Edgewear from shelving. Otherwise, Book is very good with no creases to cover and all pages clean. Binding is tight and square. read more
Edition: First US Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey USA
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall First complete English translation of the controversial work of this 16th century Italian philosopher, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in 1600. Scarlet red cloth with heavy gilt and black cover lettering, black endpapers, 324 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition, looks and feels new, with sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Date Published: 1964
Description: Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Near Fine/Very Good+, light flecking to front endpapers, else book in great shape. Some edge wear and price clipping to dj, else nice. read more
Edition: 2 Revised
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780803262348ISBN:0803262345
Description: New. The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), one of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in 1600. The primary evidence against him was the boo... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Date Published: 1964
Description: Translated and edited by Arthur D. Imerti, with an introduction and notes. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and gilt and the spine stamped in blind, gilt, and black. Previous owners embossment on the front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and bright. The dust jacket is price clipped and has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities, otherwise a fine book in a very good dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Press, New Brunswick
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Tall octavo; 324pp indexed; Hardcover 1st Ed in price-clipped jacket in excellent cond, no markings, jacket a little rubbed with chipped edgewear at spine ends, mild foxing top page block & top jacket edges, cloth boards sunned very top board edges, o/w clean tight excellent copy (dj in mylar) read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
Date Published: 1964
Description: Hardcover large 8vo, xii + 324 pp, Orange cloth, gilt and black title, etc. to spine. Edges a little dusty, otherwise VG+ in near VG dustjacket (a little rubbed and discolored, missing a few chips around the edges). read more
Edition: 1st American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; 324 pp., cadmium red cloth bdg. with blind & gilt-stamped front board & spine, black-stamped spine, tec. The first complete English translation of the most controversial work of the 16th century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by 2 Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600; Bruno wrote a daring indictement of the corruption of the social & religious institutions of his day, an embodiment of what was most ... read more
"to read the description of this book - and the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to it - one would think that it was capable of summoning satan...
unfortunately, i can attribute no such power to this book. in fact, it often seemed to me to be a classic Millenial text that the RCC has used to promote itself to the heathen since its origins..."
"What?! Only 3 stars for Giordano Bruno?! That's BLASPHEMY! Bruno is a fascinating & important figure to me - as are, probably, all 'heretics' - & I'll continue to read things by him (I have another in my library) but I think I'm too removed from his time to fully appreciate this. It was too esoteric in a particular way for me to successfully enter into it. &, for me, that's really saying something!"
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