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More arcane allusions to mythology than mortal brains can handle. In a nutshell: "the Earth is not the center of the universe, and other reasons to get burned at the stake," should have been the subtitle, but look at the title itself; that should have been the subtitle, and a new title should've bee Leggi tutto

This was an excellent, though difficult to source, work. Bruno is brilliant. He echoes a lot of Platonic and Pythagorean thought. This makes sense to those well versed in Plato, as the former is merely a refinement of the latter. What is tantalizing about Bruno is the possibility that he had access

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 Leggi tutto

Wonderfully batshit insane -- the Deleuze of the sixteenth century.

Four-hundred twenty years after his burning at the stake, the nolan's philosophic insights and mordant humor remain compelling. The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast will be more difficult for readers lacking at least a cursory education in Hellenic and other classic mythology—I kept my encyclopedia Leggi tutto

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 prom Leggi tutto

Having recently concluded Ovid's Metamorphoses, it seemed apt to read a similar "classic." The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast may not be as well known, but it IS considered the quintessential work by Giordano Bruno. Bruno was a monk from Naples that in the later stages of the sixteenth century wo Leggi tutto