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 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)
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)
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