Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad / Edition 1

by Frances A. Yates

Overview

First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415220453
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/1999
Series:	Selected Works Series
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Hermes Trismegistus; Chapter 2 Ficino's Pimander and the Asclepius; Chapter 3 Hermes Trismegistus and Magic; Chapter 4 Ficino's Natural Magic1Ficino's magic has been admirably discussed by D. P. Walker in his book on Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella to which I am greatly indebted in this chapter. I am also indebted to E. Garin's essay, “Le ‘Elezioni’ e il problema dell'astrologia” in Umanesimo e esoterismo, ed. E. Castelli, Archivio di Filosofia, Padua, 1960, pp. 7 ff.; Chapter 5 Pico Della Mirandola and Cabalist Magic; Chapter 6 Pseudo-Dionysius and the Theology of a Christian Magus; Chapter 7 Cornelius Agrippa's Survey of Renaissance Magic; Chapter 8 Renaissance Magic and Science; Chapter 9 Against Magic (1) Theological Objections (2) The Humanist Tradition; Chapter 10 Religious Hermetism in the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 11 Giordano Bruno: First Visit to Paris; Chapter 12 Giordano Bruno in England: The Hermetic Reform; Chapter 13 Giordano Bruno in England: The Hermetic Philosophy; Chapter 14 Giordano Bruno and the Cabala; Chapter 15 Giordano Bruno: Heroic Enthusiast and Elizabethan; Chapter 16 Giordano Bruno: Second Visit to Paris; Chapter 17 Giordano Bruno in Germany; Chapter 18 Giordano Bruno: Last Published Work; Chapter 19 Giordano Bruno: Return To Italy; Chapter 20 Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella; Chapter 21 After Hermes Trismegistus was Dated; Chapter 22 Hermes Trismegistus and the Fludd Controversies;