Ash Wednesday Supper - A New Translation

Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. A Note on the Text
3. Complete Italian Text: newly edited according to the so-called vulgate version
4. Translation of the Dedication (+ notes)
5. Translation of Dialogue 1 (+ notes)
6. Translation of Dialogue 2 (+ notes)
7. Translation of Dialogue 3 (+ notes)
8. Translation of Dialogue 4 (+ notes)
9. Translation of Dialogue 5 (+ notes)
10. Appendix: Alternative Italian text of folio D
11. Appendix: Alternative English translation of folio D
12. Bibliography of Cited Works

About the author

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model. In addition to cosmology, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Other studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.

Hilary Gatti is a former associate professor in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the Università di Roma La Sapienza.

Summary

Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems.

Product details

• Authors: Giordano Bruno, Giordano/ Gatti Bruno, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini
• Assisted by: Hilary Gatti (Editor), Hilary Gatti (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781487521400
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2140-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra; Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library; Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Libra
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)