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BIOGRAPHIES, WORKS, AND ESSAYSxiii
PART I
LIFE OF BRUNO1
PART II
PHILOSOPHY OF BRUNO119
CHAPTER I
THE SOURCES OF THE PHILOSOPHY121
CHAPTER II
THE FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE153
CHAPTER III
THE INFINITE UNIVERSE—THE MIRROR OF GOD180
CHAPTER IV
NATURE AND THE LIVING WORLDS203
CHAPTER V
THE LAST AND THE LEAST THINGS: ATOMS AND SOUL-MONADS223
CHAPTER VI
THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF BRUNO252
CHAPTER VII
THE HIGHER LIFE277
CHAPTER VIII
POSITIVE RELIGIONS AND THE RELIGION OF PHILOSOPHY294
CHAPTER IX
BRUNO IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY323
INDEX361

Biographies and General Works on Bruno

Bartholmèss, Christian, Jordano Bruno, vol. i., Paris, 1846—on the life and times of Bruno; vol. 2, 1847—on his works and philosophy.

Carrière, Moritz, Die philosophische Weltanschauung der Reformationszeit, 1st ed., 1847; 2nd ed., 1887.

Berti, Domenico, Giordano Bruno da Nola, sua vita e sua dottrina. Appeared first in the Nuova Antologia, 1867. Some new documents were published in Documenti intorno a Giordano Bruno da Nola, 1880. A second edition of the Life, including all the documents, appeared in 1889.

Dufour, G. B. à Genève (1578). Documents inédits: Genève, 1884. Also given in Berti’s second edition.

Sigwart, Die Lebensgeschichte G. B.’s (Verzeichniss der Doctoren, etc., Tübingen, 1880), a paper which is expanded and corrected in his Kleine Schriften, 1st series (pp. 49–124 and 293–304): Freiburg i. B., 1889.

Brunnhofer, G. B.’s Weltanschauung und Verhängniss: Leipzig, 1882. A vigorous eulogy of Bruno and his work.

Frith, Life of Giordano Bruno: London, 1887.

Riehl, Giordano Bruno, Zur Erinnerung an den 17. Februar, 1600: Leipzig, 1st ed., 1889; 2nd, 1900.

Kühlenbeck (“Landseck”) Bruno, der Märtyrer der neuen Weltanschauung: Leipzig, 1890.

Pognisi, G. B. e l’ Archivio di San Giovanni Decollato; Torino, etc., 1891.

Italian biographies and pamphlets are innumerable. Among the best are—

Mariano, G. B. La Vita e l’ uomo: Roma, 1881.

Levi, G. B. o la Religione del Pensiero: Torino, 1887.

Morselli, G. B., Commemorazione, etc.: Torino, 1888. Morselli regards Bruno as the precursor of all modern philosophy, and as prophet of most of the scientific discoveries of the 19th century.

Tocco, G. B. Conferenza: Firenze, 1886. On Bruno’s religion and philosophy of religion.

Of writers in English on Bruno may also be named:—Owen, in his Sceptics of the Italian Renaissance: London, 1893 (pp. 244–342); Daniel Brinton and Thomas Davidson, G. B., Philosopher and Martyr, Two Addresses: Philadelphia, 1890; Plumptre, in his Studies in Little-known Subjects: London, 1898 (pp. 61–127); Whittaker in Essays and Notices, 1895 (reprinted from Mind, April 1884 and July 1887); the Quarterly Review for October 1902, “Giordano Bruno in England”; and R. Adamson, The Development of Modern Philosophy: Edinburgh and London, 1903, vol. 2 (pp. 23–44).

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