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Giordano Bruno

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by Ingrid D. Rowland

Ferrara, Jews in

  Ferrari, Ettore

  Fiammetta

  Fibonacci, Leonardo

  Ficino, Marsilio; divine light of; homoerotic desires of; natural magic regimen of; translations by

  Fiorentino, Mauro

  Flanders

  Florence; art in; power struggles between Rome and; University of

  Florio, John

  Fontana, Domenico

  Forest of Matter

  Fortune, John

  Fountain of the Four Rivers, The (Bernini)

  Foxe, John

  France; Latin as language of education in; Naples ruled by; Protestants in, see Huguenots; see also specific cities and towns

  Franciscans

  Frankfurt; book fairs in

  Franzino, Father

  Frezzaria

  Frischlin, Nicodemus

  Gagliardo, Fra Eugenio

  Galileo Galilei; on mathematics; prosecution by Inquisition of; rehabilitation by Catholic Church of; telescopic discoveries of; at University of Padua

  Galleria dell’Accademia (Venice)

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe

  Geneva; Consistory of; University of

  Genoa

  Gentile, Giovanni

  Gentili, Alberico

  geometry; of Mordente; spherical

  Georgics (Virgil)

  Germany; landscape of; Latin as language of education in; proximity of Venice to; see also specific cities and towns

  Gesner, Conrad

  Gesualdo, Don Carlo, Prince of Venosa

  Gibbons, Orlando

  Giles of Rome

  Giles of Viterbo; divine light imagery of; Forest of Matter imagery of; Kabbalah studies of; Platonic philosophy of; Seripando mentored by

  Gillespie, Robert

  Giovanni da Gara

  Giuliano da Salò, Fra

  Gonzaga of Mantua

  Gothic architecture

  Gough, Michael

  Gourbin, Gilles

  Granada, Miguel Angel

  Grassi, Orazio

  Graziani, Francesco

  Graziano, Lame

  “Great Art” (Llull)

  Great Key, The (Bruno)

  Greca, Virgina

  Greece

  Greek Orthodoxy

  Greeks, ancient; astronomy of; Egypt and; geometry of; magical operations of; mathematics as underpinning of philosophy of; memory enhancement technique of; Naples founded by; orgiastic cult of; poetic meters used by

  Gregorian calendar

  Gregory XIII, Pope

  Greville, Fulke

  Grifanius, Hubertus

  Gwinne, Matthew

  Habsburgs

  Hadrian, Emperor

  Hannover

  Heinrich Julius, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg

  Helianus, Victor

  Helmstedt

  Hennequin, Jean

  Henri, duc de Guise

  Henri III, King of France; ambassador to Court of St. James’s of; Huguenots and; works by Bruno dedicated to; Spanish ambassador to

  Henri VI, King of Navarre

  heresy, cases before Venetian Inquisition of

  Hermes Trismegistus

  Hermits of Saint Augustine

  Hernandez, Luigi

  Herod, King

  Heroic Frenzies, The (Bruno)

  Hieroglyphic Monad, The (Dee)

  Hindu-Arabic numerals

  Hipparchus

  Hochmah

  Hohenheim, Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von, see Paracelsus

  Holy Office; in Naples; in Rome; in Venice; see also Inquisition

  Homer

  Horace

  Host; consecration of; see also transubstantiation

  Huguenots

  Hungary

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Iliad (Homer)

  Index of Forbidden Books

  infinite universe; atomic theory and; concept of God in; Kepler’s views on; language for description of; mathematics of; transformation of imagery of; in twentieth-century cosmology

  Innocent X, Pope

  Inns of Court (London)

  Inquisition; books banned by, (see also Index of Forbidden Books); in France, rumors of; locally established protocols of; in Naples; see also Roman Inquisition; Spanish Inquisition; Venetian Inquisition

  Isis; cult of

  Islam; see also Muslims

  Italian Association of Free Thinkers

  Italy; art in; banqueting in; censorship in; decline of printing industry in; effusive speech in; fortune-telling in; Gentili exiled from; Hindu-Arabic numerals in; Jews in; plague in; presses in; Protestants in; regional standards for blasphemy in; Turkish marauders in; see also specific cities and towns

  Jacob of Flanders

  Jebb, Julian

  Jerome, Saint

  Jesuits; in China; in England; French; German; Roman College of

  Jesus; casting out of spirits by; doubts about divinity of; in Garden of Gethsemane; in Gospels; in infinite universe

  Jews; ancient; conversion of; donkey as stereotype of; expulsion of; ghettos for; Moors and; mysticism of (see also Kabbalah); in Padua; in Prague; scholarship of; Teofilo on passage into Promised Land of; in Venice

  John, Gospel of

  John of Sacrobosco

  John Paul II, Pope

  Johnson, Samuel

  John the Baptist, Saint

  Judaism, see Jews

  Judgment of Paris

  Julius, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg

  Julius II, Pope

  Jupiter; planet

  Justice, Barry

  Kabbalah; Christian

  Kabbalah of the Horse Pegasus, The (Bruno)

  Kelley, Edward

  Kepler, Johannes

  King James Bible

  Kircher, Athanasius

  Knights of Saint John

  Kristeller, Paul Oskar

  Lacrima Christi (wine)

  Ladislas II, King of Naples

  La Faye, Antoine de

  Lamp of Thirty Statues, The (Bruno)

  Lange, Erik

  Las Casas, Bartolomé de

  Laski, Prince Albert

  Last Judgment

  Last Supper; painting by Veronese of

  Latimer, Hugh

  Latin Bible, see Vulgate Bible

  Lazarus

  Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

  Leo X, Pope

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lepanto, Battle of

  Levantine Jews

  Leyser, Polycarp

  Linnaeus, Carolus

  Lipsius, Justus

  Little Commentary (Copernicus)

  Lives of the Holy Fathers

  Livorno

  Llull, Ramon

  Llullian Combinatory Lamp, The (Bruno)

  logic

  Lombard, Peter

  London; bear-baiting in; Castelnau’s household in; hatred of foreigners in; market for Italian books in; streets of

  Lorraine, cardinal of

  “Love’s Beautiful Hunt” (Giles of Viterbo)

  Lucretius

  Lucrezia, Madama (statue)

  Lucy, Saint

  Luigi, Abbot (statue)

  Luke, Gospel of

  Luther, Martin

  Lutherans

  Lyon; massacre of Protestants in

  Machiavelli, Niccolò

  Madonna, see Virgin Mary

  Madrid

  Madruzzi, Lodovico Cardinal

  Mafia

  Magdeburg

  Magi

  magic

  Magris, Serafino de

  Mahomet of Arak

  Mainz

  Malaperti, Father

  Malta

  Mantua, Jews in

  Manuzio, Aldo, the Younger

  Marangon, Francesco

  Marburg, University of

  Marforio (statue)

  Margaret, Saint

  Mariano da Genazzano, Fra

  Mark, Gospel of

  marranos (converted Jews)
r />   Mars; planet

  Marsilio, Giovanni

  Mary I, Queen of England

  Mass; Latin; Protestant disruptions of

  mathematics; astronomy and

  Matthew, Gospel of

  Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

  Maude-Roxby, Roddy

  Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Maxwell, James Clerk

  McKern, Leo

  Medici

  Médicis, Catherine de

  Melanchthon, Philip

  memory, art of; magic and; mathematics and; performance before pope of; rhetoric and; see also artificial memory

  Mendoza, Don Bernardin de

  Menelaus Romanus

  Mercati, Angelo

  Mercury, planet

  Merse, Walter

  metaphysics

  Metaphysics (Aristotle)

  Mexico, Spanish in

  Michelangelo

  Milan

  Milky Way

  Miller, Jonathan

  Minerva

  Mirandola, Paolo Isaresio della

  Mithridates, Flavius

  mnemonology, see memory, art of

  Mocenigo, Giovanni

  Momus

  Monforte, Laura

  Mons Politicus

  Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

  Monte, Andrea de

  Monte Cicala (Nola)

  Monterentii, Giulio

  Moon

  Moors

  Mordente (Bruno)

  Mordente, Fabrizio

  Moretta, Caterina

  “Morgana B., Signora”

  Morosini, Andrea

  Moscow, National Library of

  Moses

  motion, mathematics of

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  music

  Muslims

  Mussolini, Benito

  mythology, classical

  Nannini, Fra Remigio

  Naples; art of recall in; astronomy in; cisterns of; climate of; comedy set in; devotion to Virgin Mary in; excommunication in absentia of Bruno in; Giles of Viterbo in; Gothic architecture in; Holy Office of; influenza epidemic in; Jews of; Inquisition in; journey from Nola to; landscape around; mysterious places in; National Library of; opponents of Paul IV in; population of; religious art in; rhetoric in; riots in; Royal University of; Santori in; Scholastic education in; skies of; Spanish rule of; Teofilo in; Turkish invasion of; vernacular of; see also San Domenico Maggiore; San Giovanni a Carbonara

  Napolitano, Francesco

  Natalino da Perasto, Ser

  natural philosophy; classification schemes in; magic and; mathematics and; metaphysics and; see also astronomy

  Neapolis, ancient Greek city of

  Neoplatonism

  Neptune

  Netherlands

  Newton, Isaac

  Nicholas, Saint

  Nigidius, Petrus

  Ninety-five Theses of Luther

  Nola; Bruno’s boyhood in; cathedral of; dialogue set in; fruit trees in

  Noli

  Noner, Antoine

  Normans

  Nostitz, Johann von

  Notes on Reading Sacrobosco (Fiorentino)

  numerology

  Nuremberg

  Odyssey (Homer)

  On Bonds in General (Bruno)

  On the Compendious Architecture and Complement to the Art of Ramon Llull (Bruno)

  On the Composition of Images (Bruno)

  One Hundred and Twenty Articles Against Mathematicians and Philosophers (Bruno)

  One Hundred and Twenty Articles on Nature and the World Against the Aristotelians (Bruno)

  On the Grace of the New Testament (Teofilo)

  On the Immense and the Numberless (Bruno)

  On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (Bruno)

  On the Interpretation of Dreams (Bruno)

  On Learned Ignorance (Cusanus)

  On Living the Heavenly Life (Ficino)

  On Mathematical Magic (Bruno)

  On the Monad (Bruno)

  On Mordente’s Compass (Bruno)

  On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)

  On the Nature of Things (Telesio)

  On the None Other (Cusanus)

  On the One God (Aquinas)

  On the Progress and Hunter’s Lamp of the Logicians (Bruno)

  On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)

  On the Scrutiny of Species and the Combinatory Lamp of Ramon Llull (Bruno)

  On the Seven Liberal Arts (Bruno)

  On the Shadows of Ideas (Bruno)

  On the Signs of the Times (Bruno)

  On the Soul (Aristotle)

  On the Sphere (John of Sacrobosco)

  On the Triple Medium (Bruno)

  On the Virgin’s Childbirth (Sannazaro)

  Orlando Furioso (Ariosto)

  Orléans, massacre of Protestants in

  Ortega, Juan de

  Oscans

  “O Thou, the Central Orb” (Gibbons)

  Ottoman Empire

  Oxford, University of; Bruno’s letter to vice-chancellor of; Dee at; Gentili at; Newton’s invention of calculus at

  Padua; University of

  painting, see art

  Palermo

  Palladio, Andrea

  Panormita, Antonio

  Paracelsus

  Paris; books printed in; Bruno’s arrival in; Castelnau’s return to; English ambassador to; massacre of Protestants in; Medoza in; Mordente in; under Napoleon; population of; University of, (see also Sorbonne)

  Pasquino, Mastro (statue)

  patria lux (light of the homeland)

  Paul, Saint

  Paul III, Pope

  Paul IV, Pope

  Paul V, Pope

  Pelagius

  Perseids meteor shower

  Persians

  Pesaro, Jews in

  Pestalozzi, Marcantonio

  Peter, Saint

  Peter Martyr, Saint

  Petrarch

  Petrucci, Alfonso Cardinal

  Phaedrus (Plato)

  Pharfacon

  Philip II, King of Spain

  Physics (Aristotle)

  picaresque genre

  Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni

  Pinelli, Giovanni Vincenzo

  Pinello, Domenico Cardinal

  Pino, Giovanni Battista

  Pisa

  Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro

  Pius V, Pope

  plague

  Plantin, Christophe

  plate tectonics

  Plato; analogy between human love and love of wisdom of; ancient philosophers preceding; erotic language of; Giles of Viterbo’s study of; imagery of; as mathematician; myths invented by; parallels of Hermetic writings with; revival of interest in; tragedy written by; in understanding of transit between God and the world

  Platonic philosophy; reconciliation of Christianity and; Scholasticism and; soul in

  Platonic Theology (Ficino)

  Pleiades

  Podocathara, Florentia

  Poland

  Pollux

  Polo, Marco

  Pompeii

  Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano

  Porsenna, Lars

  Portugal: colonialism of; Jews of

  Possevino, Antonio

  Poupard, Paul Cardinal

  Prague

  Preachers, Order of

  Prince, The (Machiavelli)

  Priuli, Lorenzo

  Prognostication (Cardano)

  Protestants; concessions to local customs of; at Council of Trent; economic power of; English; French, see Huguenots; in Geneva; German; in Index of Forbidden Books; Italian; Masses disrupted by; in printing industry; strict interpretation of Bible by; topics contested by Catholics and; in Venice; vernacular liturgy of; see also Anglican Church; Calvinists; Lutherans; Reformation

  Ptolemy

  Ptolemys

  Puccio, Luisa

  Punch-and-Judy shows

  Pythagoras

  Ragazzoni, Girolam
o

  Raleigh, Walter

  Raphael

  Readings on Geometry (Bruno)

  Rebiba, Scipione Cardinal

  reduction compass

  Reformation; see also Protestants

  Regnault, Jean

  relics, cult of

  Renaissance; architecture of; paintings of; scholarly tradition of

  Response … in Which, with the Word of God, It Is Shown That the Sacrifice of the Mass Is a Human Invention and a Horrible Idolatry (Balbani)

  Reuchlin, Johannes

  rhetoric; ancient; artificial memory and; vernacular

  Ricci, Matteo

  Ricci, Saverio

  Rich, Robert, second Earl of Warwick

  Richards, Darroll

  Ridley, Nicholas

  Ritterhausen, Conrad

  Roman College

  Roman Inquisition; archives of; Bellarmine’s propositions against Bruno in; Bruno’s defiance of; Celestino’s accusations against; corroborating witnesses in; dossier sent from San Domenico to; establishment of; extradition of Venetian prisoners by; impact on publishing houses of; prisons of; protocols of; sentencing of Bruno by; torture practiced by; two accusations required for arrests by

  Romans, ancient; brutality of punishments of; and eruption of Vesuvius; forests dreaded by; Isis worshipped by; Jesus and; Jews and; Latin spoken by; Magi and; magical operations of; Mainz founded by; mathematics as underpinning of philosophy of; memory enhancement technique of; Naples settled by; obscene gestures of; paterfamilias of; victims of games of

  Rome; and adoption of Latin Bible; astronomical studies in; beautification of; executions in; Holy Office of, see Holy Office, Roman; Jesuit College in; Jews in; power struggles between Florence and; punishment of criminals in; statue of Bruno in; University of; vagabonds in; Valla in

  Ronconi, Luca

  Rota, Bernardino

  Rouen, massacre of Protestants in

  Rudolf II, King of Bohemia

  Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

  Saint Peter’s Basilica (Rome)

  Salerno; Medical School of

  Salonica

  Samnites

  San Bartolomeo (Campagna)

  Sánchez, Francisco

  San Clemente, Don Guillén de Haro de

  San Domenico di Castello (Venice)

  San Domenico Maggiore (Naples); aristocracy at; Bruno’s novitiate at; College of; Gothic architecture of; Hebrew taught at; Holy Office in; imagery in painting and sculpture in; library of; music at; resistance to Spanish rule at; royal burials at; Scholastic education at

  San Felice Circeo (Naples)

  San Giorgio Maggiore (Venice)

  San Giovanni a Carbonara (Naples)

  San Lorenzo (Naples)

  San Marco (Venice)

  Sannazaro, Jacopo

  San Paolo Maggiore (Naples)

  Santa Chiara (Naples)

  Sant’Agostino (Naples)

  Santa Maria de Castello (Genoa)

  Santa Maria Novella (Florence)

  Santa Maria Sopra Minerva (Rome)

  Santori, Giulio Antonio Cardinal

 

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