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by: Frances A. Yates
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 190
EAN: 9780226950075
ISBN: 0226950077
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: February 26, 1991
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Sales Rank: 297568
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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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.
'Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. 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 a great number of misrepresentations that still plague the tormented figure of the Nolan prophet.'—Giorgio de Santillana, American Historical Review
'Yates's book is an important addition to our knowledge of Giordano Bruno. But it is even more important, I think, as a step toward understanding the unity of the sixteenth century.'—J. Bronowski, New York Review of Books
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Rating:  - Shame on the University of Chicago
This is not a review of Ms. Yates's writing. Instead, I am awarding the single star to the physical book perpetrated by the University of Chicago Press in 1991. The good news is that this edition doesn't cost very much. The bad news is that the 1991 edition is a bad reproduction of an earlier edition. The ink bleeds all over some of the pages. There are diagonal streaks on many pages. Sometimes the ink is light grey on one side of a diagonal streak, while it is dark and smudged on the other ... Read More
Rating:  - A Place to Start
This book isn't a biography of Bruno or anything close. The opinions put forth in this book are rationalistic nonsense, as another reviewer has stated, and they lack soul or understanding. This book is good for one thing: exposing yourself to Bruno's influences and using it as a bibliography for other works. This is the only defense I will give this book.
Rating:  - Ian Myles Slater on: Re-thinking the Past
I'm going to begin this review by explaining what the book is NOT about, since a number of reviewers seem to have been disappointed by what it contains. I will also include where to find information on some these topics.
"Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition" is NOT a biography of Bruno (1548-1600), who, according to the common view was burned at the stake for teaching Copernican astronomy (this was one of the charges, but was a side issue). There is a need for a modern biography, ... Read More
Rating:  - A clumsy piece of homework by an outsider...
What is "Gordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition"?
Let me put it very simply: it is a succession of clumsily written reviews of the main Hermetic treatises, starting with the original manuscripts brought over from Byzantium after its fall and ending with the works of Bruno, Campanella and other more recent thinkers and magicians. Each chapter deals with a book or a series of books by one or several Hermeticists. Yates dutifully summarizes the book, adds a few more or less enlightened comments ... Read More
Rating: - The Truth about Bruno
Actually, this book can not be evaluated at once. Rather, you should concede four stars to the greater part of the book and not any star to the rest. For this is widely an excellent book. Yates does not only prove that Bruno is not the pioneer of modern science he is often stated to be, but convincingly exposes the background against which his works have to be understood. To that purpose, she shows the impact of the Hermetic writings, an ancient source written in the second and third centuries A.D., but by ... Read More
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