The Pope and the Heretic, (Paperback)

from Mithalogica

While White's portrait of Bruno is interesting, he commits a fundamental fallacy in dealing with history; he evaluates events from a contemporary perspective. In doing so he not only does the Church and society of the 16th century a severe disservice, but in effect, does so to Bruno as well. Brun...

from john257hopper

A fairly engrossing account of the life of this philosopher and occultist who perceived an infinite universe and tried to establish a new religion, a fusion of pre-Christian beliefs and original Christianity, shorn of what he perceived to be the corruption of the official Catholic church. Bruno's...

from DLMorrese

Whereas this does not go into much about detail on Bruno's writings, I found it an informative (and disturbing) account of what the Inquisition did to those who doubted Church dogma. It is an account of his life, not his philosophy. Despite some surprisingly modern sounding ideas, Bruno was not a...

from DLMorrese

Whereas this does not go into much about detail on Bruno's writings, I found it an informative (and disturbing) account of what the Inquisition did to those who doubted Church dogma. It is an account of his life, not his philosophy. Despite some surprisingly modern sounding ideas, Bruno was not a...