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    Giordano Bruno

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    Santo Stefano (Venice)

      San Zanipolo (Venice)

      Sarpi, Paolo

      Sasso, Lutio Cardinal

      Saturn; planet

      Savolino, Albenzio

      Savolino, Fraulissa

      Savolino, Giulia

      Savolino, Laudomia

      Savolino, Don Sabatino

      Savona

      Saxony

      Scholasticism; Inquisition rooted in; Platonism and; at San Domenico Maggiore; at Sorbonne

      Schoppe, Gaspar

      sculpture, see art

      Scuola Grande di San Marco (Venice)

      Sebastian, Saint

      Seggio di Nilo (Naples)

      semina rerum (seeds of things)

      Sentences (Lombard)

      “Sentences” According to the Mind of Plato, The (Giles of Viterbo)

      Sentis, Giovanni Gabriele de

      Sephardim

      Seripando, Antonio

      Seripando, Girolamo

      Serveto, Miguel

      Servites

      Seven Joys of the Virgin, The (devotional poem)

      Sforza, Francesco, Duke of Milan

      Shakespeare, William

      Shekinah

      Sibyl of Cumae

      Sicily, Spanish rule of

      Sidney, Philip

      Siena

      Silk Road

      silva (forest)

      Silvestri, Matteo

      Sixtus IV, Pope

      Sixtus V, Pope

      Society of Jesus, see Jesuits

      Socrates

      Sodano, Angelo Cardinal

      Solomon; Song of, see Bible, Song of Songs

      Solon

      Songbook (Petrarch)

      Song of Circe, The (Bruno)

      “Sonnet in Praise of the Ass” (Bruno)

      Sophia

      Sorbonne

      sorcery

      Spaccio della bestia tronfante, see Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, The

      Spain; Armada of; colonialism of; Columbus’s voyages for; court of, dwarfs at; misprint in Index of Forbidden Books in; Moorish power in; Naples ruled by

      Spanish Inquisition; arrests and convictions on basis of single accusation by; converted Jews charged by

      Speridando, Girolamo

      Spiritual Exercises (Ignatius of Loyola)

      Spranger, Bartolomäus

      squaring the circle

      Starry Messenger (Galileo)

      Stephen, Saint

      Stoicism

      Summa Against the Gentiles (Aquinas)

      Summary of Metaphysical Terms (Eglin)

      Summa theologiae (Aquinas)

      sun-centered universe

      Switzerland

      syllogisms

      Symposium (Plato)

      Tabriz

      Tansillo, Luigi

      Taverna, Ludovico

      telescope, invention of

      Telesio, Bernardino

      Teofilo da Vairano, Fra

      theology; see also Christian theology

      Thirty Years’ War

      thought problems

      Thucydides

      Timaeus (Plato)

      Titian

      Toledo, Don Pedro de

      “To the Malcontent” (Bruno)

      Tor di Nona prison (Rome)

      Torquemada, Tomás de

      torture, juridical

      Toulouse; massacre of Protestants in; University of transubstantiation

      Trinity

      Triumphant Idiot, The (Bruno)

      Tübingen, University of

      Tudor, Mary

      Turin

      Turks; see also Ottoman Empire

      Two Little Books (Cardano)

      Ulysses

      Underhill, John

      universe; biography of; Dante’s view of; infinite, see infinite universe; microstructure of; models of; sun-centered

      Uraniborg, observatory at

      Urban VIII, Pope

      Urbino, Duke of

      Urey, Harold

      Ursula, Saint

      Utrecht

      Vaio, Francesco

      Valedictory Oration (Bruno)

      Valla, Lorenzo

      Vatican; Library of; Secret Archive of

      Velázquez, Diego

      Venetian Inquisition; archives of; arrest of Bruno by; Bruno’s confession to; Bruno’s testimony to; corroborating witnesses before; extradition to Rome of prisoners of; heresy cases of; Mocenigo’s accusations to; prisons of; procedures of; Protestants and Jews brought before

      Venice; Arsenal of; availability of indexed books in; Ducal Palace of; extradition of prisoners to Rome from; Jews in; New Prisons of; plague in; State Archive of; trade routes through; Turks in

      Venus

      vernacular; dialogues in; general books on technical subjects in; Protestant liturgy and Bible in; sonnets in

      Vernacular Sphere, The (Fiorentino)

      Veronese, Paolo

      Verrocchio, Andrea del

      Vespucci, Amerigo

      vestigia (footprints)

      Vesuvius, Mount

      Vikings

      Virgil

      Virgin Mary; banishment of pictures of

      Visconti, Maximiliano

      Vita, Fra Domenico

      Vitruvius

      Vitus, Saint

      Voët, Gilbert

      Vulgate Bible

      Waldensians

      Walker, D. P.

      Walsingham, Frances

      Walsingham, Francis

      Warburg Institute

      Waterloo, Battle of

      Wheel of Fortune

      Whitefriars

      Why Is Nothing Known (Sánchez)

      Wiesbaden

      witchcraft

      Wittenberg; University of

      Wolfenbüttel

      Worlde of Wordes, A (Florio)

      World War II

      Yates, Frances

      Yunus, Ibn

      Zaratan, Zuane

      Zaratine, Cathe

      Zick, Peter

      Zurich

      ALSO BY INGRID D. ROWLAND

      The Culture of the High Renaissance

      The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery

      About the Author

      Ingrid D. Rowland was previously a professor at the University of Chicago. She is a regular essayist for The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. She is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance and The Scorith of Scornello. She lives in Rome. You can sign up for email updates here.

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Notice

      Dedication

      A Note on Translation

      Prologue: The Hooded Friar

      1. A Most Solemn Act of Justice

      2. The Nolan Philosopher

      3. “Napoli è tutto il mondo”

      4. “The world is fine as it is”

      5. “I have, in effect, harbored doubts”

      6. “I came into this world to light a fire”

      7. Footprints in the Forest

      8. A Thousand Worlds

      9. Art and Astronomy

      10. Trouble Again

      11. Holy Asininity

      12. The Signs of the Times

      13. A Lonely Sparrow

      14. Thirty

      15. The Gifts of the Magi

      16. The Song of Circe

      17. “Go up to Oxford”

      18. Down Risky Streets

      19. The Art of Magic

      20. Canticles

      21. Squaring the Circle

      22. Consolation and Valediction

      23. Infinities

      24. Return to Italy

      25. The Witness

      26. The Adversary

      27. Gethsemane


      28. Hell’s Purgatory

      29. The Sentence

      30. The Field of Flowers

      Epilogue: The Four Rivers

      Appendix: Bruno’s Sentence

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Acknowledgments

      Index

      Also by Ingrid D. Rowland

      About the Author

      Copyright

      Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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      Copyright © 2008 by Ingrid D. Rowland

      All rights reserved

      First edition, 2008

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