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).