Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition - Yates Frances A.
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition - Yates Frances A. Placing Bruno-both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake-in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an…
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition - Yates Frances A.
Placing Bruno-both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake-in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay-and conflict-with magic and occult practices. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. "Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates.
This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Now she has looked on Bruno. Historians of ideas, of religion, and of science will study it.
Some of them, after reading it, will have to think again. . . . For Miss Yates has put Bruno, for the first time, in his tradition, and has shown what that tradition was."-Hugh Trevor-Roper, New Statesman "A decisive contribution to the understanding of Giordano Bruno, this book will probably remove