Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Giordano Bruno’s Changing of Default Positions 11
6. The Measurement of the Immeasurable Divine Mind and Mathematical Structures in Giordano Bruno’s De triplici minimo et mensura 19
7. “…per speculum et in aenigmate…” 35
8. Platonic Caverns and Epicurean Worlds 63
9. De immenso et innumerabilibus, I, 3 and the Concept of Planetary Systems in the Infinite Universe. A Commentary 89
10. Atom, Matter, and Monade 107
11. Giordano Bruno and the Relativity of Time 121
12. Giordano Bruno and the New Order of Nature between Copernicus and Galilei 131
13. The Comic and Philosophy: Plato’s Philebus and Bruno’s Candle-bearer 149
14. The (In)discreet Presence of Machiavelli in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio 159
15. Bruno’s Cabala: Satire of Knowledge and the Uses of the Dialogue Form 179
16. The Dialectic of the Absolute Beginning. On a Copper Engraving in Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae 197
17. A Catholic Reader of Giordano Bruno in Counter-Reformation Rome: Athanasius Kircher, SJ and Panspermia Rerum INGRID ROWLAND 221
18. From Paris to Rome, Hamburg and London. Aspects of the Afterlife of Giordano Bruno in the Twentieth Century 237
19. Flame and Wood A Speech on the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Giordano Bruno Monument in Berlin 249
20. Flame and Wood A Speech on the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Giordano Bruno Monument in Berlin 249
21. Giordano Bruno 256
22. List of Contributors 257
23. Index Nominum 261