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First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

These papers discuss the life, work and influence of the Renaissance philosopher Giordana Bruno. One of the most striking thinkers of his time, he was eventually denounced as a heretic to the Venetian Inquisition, imprisoned in Rome and then burnt alive.

The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime, his role in its development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth century. Hilary Gatti here reevaluates Bruno's contribution to the scientific revolution, in the process challenging the view that now dominates Bruno criticism among English-language scholars. Gatti reinstates Bruno as a scientific thinker and occasi...

Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor. Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe argues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas abou...