Early studies of Giordano Bruno

This 6-volume collection selects the best 19th-century studies on Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), the most famous Italian philosopher of the Renaissance.

It was during that period that the pioneering scholarly work on Bruno was written, much of which continues to be the basis of current Bruno studies.

The set includes English, German, Italian and French works, gathering the texts that mark the first thorough modern interpretations of Bruno after the debates of the preceding centuries.

Offering a rounded, comprehensive assessment of Bruno, they include accounts of his life, comparison of his thought with Nicholas of Cusa, a full record to his works, a study of his Latin works, and of the unpublished writings, and an examination of the influence upon him of medieval and Renaissance thinkers.Bruno is regarded by many as a forerunner of modern science and philosophy.

Admired by Spinoza, Jacobi and Hegel, his metaphysics had a direct influence on classical German idealism, and he anticipated the theory of monism later advocated by Leibniz.

His broad-ranging writings, taking in magic and mysticism, astronomy, metaphysics and theology, continue to interest and appeal to modern readers, and his tragic end, burned at the state as a heretic, transformed him into a martyr to free philosophical inquiry.These are previously unreprinted texts of Bruno.

With the new editorial introductions by Bruno scholar Professor Dr. Paul Richard Blum, the collection should be of interest for the assessment and interpretation of one of the most influential of the Renaissance thinkers.