Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair / John Bossy
1991, First Edition. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #444090
ISBN: 0300049935
Physical description; xix, 294 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p282-289. - Includes index. Contents; Frontmatter -- Illustrations -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Dates -- Abbreviations used in the Footnotes -- To the Reader -- PART I A Dog in the Night-time -- 1 SALISBURY COURT -- 2 ON THE RIVER -- 3 CONFESSIONS -- 4 DIALOGUES, AND A SMALL RIOT -- 5 LAST DAYS IN ARCADIA -- 6 UNDER THE VOLCANO -- PART II Veritas Filia Temporis -- 1 A COINCIDENCE OF OPPOSITES -- 2 BRUNO AT LARGE -- 3 BRUNO RECAPTURED -- Epilogue FAGOT AT THE STAKE -- PART III Texts and Notes -- I Bruno's Account of his Life in Paris and London) 1581-1586) as given to his Inquisitors in Venice) 20!3o May 1592) translated -- A Note on Castelnau's House -- A Note on Castelnau's House -- A Note on Fagot's Handwriting, and Bruno's -- Sources for Bruno's Handwriting -- Sources and Literature -- Index. Subjects; Bruno, Giordano 1548-1600 Italian philosopher and astronomer. Bruno, Giordano. Elizabeth I, Queen of England 1533-1603 Relations with spies. Walsingham, Francis Sir 1532-1590. Bruno, Giordano 1548-1600. Walsingham, Francis Sir 1530?-1590. 1500-1603
Catholics England History 16th century. Catholics Great Britain History 16th century. Espionage Great Britain History 16th century.
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