Europe's long sixteenth century鈥攁 period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s鈥攚as an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes...
This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and...
