ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ALCHEMY THE RENAISSANCE DRAMA OF KNOWLEDGE THE RENAISSANCE DRAMA OF KNOWLEDGE Giordano Bruno in England HILARY GATTI Volume 3 Firstpublishedin1989 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1989HilaryGatti Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-63753-4(Set) eISBN:978-0-203-08445-8(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-63775-6(Volume3) eISBN:978-0-203-08311-6(Volume3) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. THE RENAISSANCE DRAMA OF KNOWLEDGE Giordano Bruno in England Hilary Gatti ROUTLEDGE LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1989 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1989 Hilary Gatti Printed in Great Britain by T. J. Press (Padstow) Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gatti, Hilary The Renaissance drama of knowledge. 1. Itali'an philosophy. Bruno, Giordano I. Title 195 ISBN 0-415-03207-5 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data also available ILL USTRAT IONS Images of Minerva issuing from the head of Jupiter, and Minerva with Mercury in Vincenzo Cartari's Le Imagini de i Dei de gli Antichi, 1556 9 2 A sixteenth-century engraving of Hercules by Adamo Scultori (c. 1530-85) 13 3 Translations in the hand of the Ninth Earl of North- umberland in his copy of Bruno's Heroici furori 43 4 Thomas Harriot's book list containing the annotation 'Nolanus, de universo et mundis' beside mathematical notes on progressing series of numbers. 52 5 A page of Walter Warner's philosophical manuscripts entitled 'Space, Locus, Ubi' 55 6 A page of Thomas Harriot's manuscripts De injinitis 73 7 A stabbing in a tavern. Engraving by A. Van Ostade (1610-85) 76 8 The emblem of Icarus in Andrea Alciati's Emblemata with an autograph comment by Johannes Kepler 85 IX To the memory of Donald J. Gordon