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
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Schoppe, Gaspar
sculpture, see art
Scuola Grande di San Marco (Venice)
Sebastian, Saint
Seggio di Nilo (Naples)
semina rerum (seeds of things)
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Servites
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Shekinah
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Siena
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silva (forest)
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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
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
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
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