Part 2 — INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Absolute, first principle or, 166

Agrippa of Nettesheim, Cornelius, 148, 149;

De occulta philosophia, 131, 149;

De Vanitate Scientiarum, 149, 257

Alasco, Prince, of Poland, 23

Algerio, Pomponio, 4

Alsted, John Henry, Artificium perorandi, 114

Anaxagoras, 126

Animism, 305;

universal, 147

Antidicsonus, 36, 324

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 9, 80, 137

Areopagus, literary society, 27

Aretino, Pietro, Cortegiana of, 19

Arian heresy, the, 357

Aristotle, De Anima, 16, 158, 159;

criticism of, 50, 123;

Organon, 53, 55;

Topics, 55;

Metaphysics, 113, 125;

Rhetoric, 114, 138;

Physics, 115, 116, 122, 125, 236;

De generatione et corruptione, 116;

Meteorologica, 116;

Bruno’s acquaintance with, 121–23;

rejection of mathematical method, 123;

treatment of predecessors, 124;

Logic, 138;

theory of limitation of space, 183;

on finitude of world, 185, 186;

on plurality of worlds, 197

Asinity, 257

Aspiration, 291

Atom, the, 236;

knowledge implies the, 227;

spherical, 240;

and materialism, 249

Atomism, belief of Bruno and Cusanus in, 147;

a metaphysical doctrine, 227, 246;

mathematical, 245;

physical, 247;

critical, 247;

and mathematics, 331

Avarice, 272

Avenarius, 337

Averroes, 136, 305

Avicebron or Avencebrol, Fons Vitae, 135

Bacon, Francis, 33, 123, 139, 325–29;

Novum Organum, 123, 124, 327–32;

Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis, 325;

Historia Ventorum, 326;

De Augmentis Scientiarum, 327, 328, 333;

method, 329;

theory of form, 330

Balbani, Nicolo, of Lucca, 13

Bartholmèss, Christian, 5, 16, 20, 97, 311, 348, 350

Basäus’ Catalogue of Frankfort Books, 65

Bayle, Pierre, 348

Beauty, 281, 283;

reason apprehends true, 281

Bellarmino, censor of Bruno’s works, 89

Berti, Domenico, 5, 8, 10, 11, 94, 95, 333, 357

Besler, Bruno’s pupil and copyist, 114–17

Bible’s teaching, the, 299

Bochetel, Maria de, 47

Body, distraction of the, 288

Bodies, movements of, 216;

prime, 224

Brunnhofer, 3, 18, 41, 51, 60, 64, 89, 114, 301, 337, 345, 354

Bruno, Giovanni, father of Bruno, 3

Bruno, Giordano (Filippo), birth and family, 3;

childhood, 5, 357;

at Naples, 8, 121;

enters Dominican Order, 9;

became priest, 9;

charges of heresy, 9, 10;

at Rome, 10;

at Venice, 11, 66;

at Padua, 12, 69;

at Geneva, 12;

before Consistory, 15;

at Toulouse, 16, 17;

Doctor in Theology and professor, 16;

at Paris, 17, 18;

Reader at the university, 20;

at London, 21;

at Oxford, 21;

impressions of Oxford, 25;

relation to Mauvissière, 27;

on Mauvissière, 29;

admiration for women of England, 41;

hostility in England, 45;

consults Bishop of Bergamo, 48;

associate of College of France, 49;

at Marburg, 51;

at Wittenberg, 52;

at Helmstadt, 60;

denounced by Mocenigo at Venice, 72, 73;

examination before Tribunal, 74, 294, 357;

defence, 75;

creed, 76, 77, 109;

abjuration of errors, 81;

remitted to Rome, 84;

orthodoxy, 87;

death, 92–96;

grounds for death, 97;

mission, 103;

dislike of pedantry, 105;

originality, 107;

optimism in philosophy,

111, 175, 313;

works published during imprisonment and posthumously, 113–17;

interest in Greek philosophy, 125;

and Cusanus, 147;

religion, 297;

rationalism, 301;

restoration of name, 351

Publications—Italian Dialogues, 5, 29, 34, 45, 127;

Sigillus Sigillorum, 5, 12, 17, 37, 111, 112, 137, 140, 297;

Le Opere Italiane, 5, 89;

Opera Latina, 6, 7, 12, 17, 20, 22, 40, 80, 96, 106, 113, 114, 122, 126, 127, 134–37, 140, 141, 151, 178, 180, 181, 183, 184, 188, 196–200, 202, 207, 209–11, 213, 216, 230, 231, 235, 236, 242, 243, 260, 261, 266, 292, 295, 297, 298, 302–4, 307, 310, 311, 313–16, 318–20, 334, 335;

De Immenso, 8, 48, 51, 62, 65, 108, 122, 133, 152, 180, 183, 185, 186, 191, 192, 196, 203–08, 212, 213, 215, 218, 221, 223, 226, 307, 311, 315;

Signs of the Times, 11;

Ark of Noah, 11;

Cabala, 11, 40, 41, 102, 107, 149, 219, 252, 265, 270, 308;

Cena, 12, 23, 25, 27, 33, 35, 37, 41, 103, 104, 106, 108, 123, 125, 126, 152, 161, 163, 170, 216, 219, 268, 299, 300, 301, 310, 327;

Clavis Magna, 17, 37;

“The Thirty Divine Attributes,” 17;

De Umbris, 18, 19, 103, 107, 115, 310, 324;

Ars Memoriæ, 18;

Cantus Circæus, 18, 37;

De Compendiosa Architectura, 19, 140, 141;

Il Candelaio, 19, 106;

Oratio Consolatoria, 21, 60, 260, 298;

Explicatio Triginta Sigillorum, 22, 26, 34, 37;

“Immortality of the Soul” and “The Five-fold Sphere,” 25;

Causa, 25, 29, 30, 33, 35, 38, 106, 124–26, 132, 133, 135, 137, 138, 150, 153, 155, 200, 302, 309, 340;

Infinito, 28, 108, 125, 131, 142, 180, 185, 192, 217, 221, 224, 310, 357;

Spaccio, 32, 39, 40, 46, 57, 130, 131, 144, 149, 160, 224, 252–54, 265, 296, 302, 306, 307, 341;

Heroici Furori, 32, 41, 42, 100, 126, 129, 134, 137, 252, 253, 302, 310, 313;

Modern and Complete Art of Remembering, 37;

Centum et Viginti, Articuli De Natura et Mundo, 49;

De Lampade Combinatoria, 53, 139, 261;

De Lampade Combinatoria Lulliana, 54;

De Specierum Scrutino, 54, 59, 114;

De Progressu Lampada Venatoria Logicorum, 55;

De Minimo, 62–65, 106, 116, 160, 163, 178, 223, 226, 228, 234–36, 238–41, 243, 312, 313, 320;

De Monade, 62, 65, 80, 149, 150;

Articuli adv. Mathematicos, 110, 244, 295, 318, 335;

Summa terminorum metaphysicorum, 113, 304, 305, 308, 321, 341;

Artificium perorandi, 114;

Lampas Triginta Statuarum, 114, 295, 313, 314, 320, 321;

De Magia, et Theses de Magia, 116;

De Magia Mathematica, 116, 137;

De Rerum Principiis et Elementis et Causis, 116;

De Medicina Lulliana, 117, 139;

De Vinculis in genere, 117, 134, 266;

Acrotismus, 180, 217, 223, 225, 226

Budgell, Eustace, in Spectator, 348

Buhle, History of Philosophy, 352

Burton, Robert, Anatomy of Melancholy, 347

Cabala, Hebrew, 130, 131

Camden’s Elizabeth, 24

Cardanus, 150

Carrière, Moritz, 339

Cause of nature, efficient, 157, 184;

formal, 158;

final, 158

Change, ceaseless, 205, 210, 221

Christianity, attack on, 225

Cicala, Mount, 5, 7

Clemens, F. J. 142, 266

Coincidence of all things in One, 172, 176;

of contraries, 176, 179, 209;

verifications of, 177–79

Comets, Bruno’s theory of, 212

Commerce, the evils of, 269

Company of St. John the Beheaded, 95, 96

Contarini, Venetian procurator, report of, 84

Continuum not divisible, 237

Copernicanism, a heresy, 89;

influence of, on Bruno, 110

Copernicus, 150–52;

De orbium cœlestium Revolutionibus, 150

Culpepper, Warden of New College, 26

Cusanus. See Nicolaus of Cusa.

Death and life contrasted, 289

Democritus, 126

Descartes, 334–36

Desire, human, 181

Dicson, Alexander, 35, 36;

De Umbra Rationis, 36, 324

Disputation of Pentecost, 49

Divine essence, attributes of, 193;

union with the, 280;

finite soul and mind, 307

Divinity of Christ, 79;

of matter, 157

Domenico da Nocera, 71, 75

Dominicans, the, 8, 357

Douglas, Archibald, 47

Dufour, Théophil, 14

Earth, the, 208; as centre of gravity, 190;

its movements, 211;

and suns, 211

Eglin, Raphael, 64, 113

Egyptian theosophy, 130;

religion, 305

Elements, the, 185;

in isolation, 209

Elizabeth, Queen, 21, 30, 31, 47, 81;

the London of, 41, 45

Empedocles, 126

England, works published in, 37

Epitaph, Bruno’s, 99

Erlangen Codex, 116

Ether, the, 206, 245

Euclid, simplification of, 243

Evolution, theory of, 270

Existences, finite, 173;

differ, all, 235

Faith and works, 254

Faye, Anthony de la, 14

Ficino, Marsilio, 128

Figure in body and space, 189

Finite soul and divine mind, 307

Fiorentino, in Giornale de la Domenica, 6

Fire, Bruno’s theory of, 209

Florio, 21, 35, 43;

“First Fruites,” 35;

translation of Montaigne, 35

Form, intellect as, 158, 160;

natural, 165

Franco, Nicolo, 39

Frankfort, works published at, 51, 62, 66, 114;

petition to council of, 63

Furor (inspiration), kinds of, 279

Gassendi, Pierre, 336, 337

Gemistus, Georgius (Gemistus Plethon), 127, 128

Gentile, Alberico, 53

God in us, 291, 316;

love of, 291–93, 342;

man and, 298;

in nature, 315;

in himself, 317

Goethe, 352

Golden Age, the, 266

Greville, Sir Fulke, 27, 33, 43, 357

Grün, professor of philosophy, 54

Gwinne, Matthew, 35, 43

Hegel, 353;

De Orbitis Planetarum, 108

Helmstadt, Bruno at, 60, 61

Hennequin, John, 49

Henry III., 17, 18

Heraclitus’ fire, 125

Heretical propositions, the eight, 90

Heumann, Acta Philosophorum, 350

Iamblichus, 129

Ideas, abstract, 196

Identity in God, 167;

in kind of all beings, 215

Imagination of Bruno, 107

Immaculate conception, rejection of, 109

Immortality, 159;

meaning of, 309;

individual, 311

Indifference of all things in the Infinite, 173

Infinite and the finite, the, 187, 307;

action between the, 187;

relation of, 188

Intellect, 282, 341

Intelligence and Love, 290;

instinct and, 219

Isolation, no elements in, 209

Jacobi, F. H., Letters on Spinoza’s Philosophy, 351

Jews, antipathy towards the, 265

Judgment, 262;

based upon sensations, 234

Juvenal, 104

Kepler, 333

Knowledge of God, 194;

principles of, 229;

relativity of, 233;

Bruno’s Summum Bonum, 276

Lacroze, 345, 346, 350

Lagarde, 5, 11, 12, 23, 25, 27, 28–31, 36, 40, 42, 46, 57, 102–8, 124, et seq., 142, 144, 150, 154–65, 167–69, 172, et seq., 185, 193, 216, et seq., 252, 253, 255–57, 259, 261 et seq., 276–93, 296 et seq., 357

Law, function of, 262

Leibniz, Monadology, 224;

and Bruno, 343;

Bruno’s influence on, 345;

on Bruno, 347

Lessing’s idea of myths anticipated, 108

Life, one principle of, 199;

the practical, 261;

the strenuous, 279;

and death contrasted, 289

London of Elizabeth, the, 42, 45

Love, degrees of, 281;

intelligence and, 290

Lucian’s Parliament of the Gods, 39

Lucretius, 127;

De rerum natura, 127

Lully, Raymond, 138–41;

Art of Reasoning, 115, 139, 333

Luther, 57

Magnus, Albertus, 137

Man and the animals, 270;

and God, 298

Matter, divinity of, 157;

spirit and, 161;

and form, 163, 168;

deduction of, 163;

the true substance, 165;

as potentiality, 166;

substrate of the spiritual world, 168;

the ultimate unity, 171

Matthew, Tobias, 26

Mauvissière, 26, 27, 29, 47;

Teulet Papers, 23;

Salisbury Papers, 47

Melanchthon, 52

Mendoça, Bernardino di, 31, 32

“Metaphysical Remains,” 113

Minima, the three, 227;

in the classification of the sciences, 229

Minimum, relativity of, 227;

as substance, 230;

indestructible, 231;

mathematics of the, 241

Miracles and deceit, 257

Mirror of God, 182

Mocenigo, Giovanni, 66, 67, 70, 72, 73, 75

Moisture, a material element, 207

Mordente, Fabrizio, 51, 358

Morehead, W., 39, 349

Morosini, Andrea, 71

Mystical and naturalistic attitude compared 110, 111

Naples, Bruno at, 8, 121;

cloister at, 9

Nature as one and many, 169;

permanence of beauty, harmony, 175;

uniformity of, 203;

and spirit, 251

Necessity and liberty, 195

Neoplatonist school, 127, 128;

mysticism of the, 110, 134

Nicodemo, Lionardo, 348

Nicolaus of Cusa, 141, 176;

sketch of his philosophy, 142–48;

De Docta Ignorantia, 143, 145, 257;

and Bruno compared, 144, 146;

Alchoran, 145;

De Ludo globi, 147;

De Idiota, 149;

De Conjecturis, 148;

De Visione Dei, 148;

De Venatione Sapientiæ, 148

Nigidius, Petrus, 51

Nola, 3, 4, 7

Object of De Minimo, 226

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 99

Oxford and Aristotle, 21, 22;

Bruno’s impressions of, 25

Padua, 12, 69

Paracelsus, 149, 150;

ad miraculum medicus, 150

Paris, 18

Perfection, abstract conception of, 198;

plurality and, 199;

nature of, 201;

progress and, 285

Peripatetic philosophy, theses against, 49;

criticism of theory, 49

Philosophy, practical test of a perfect, 112;

Bruno’s—Matter and spirit, 159;

necessity and liberty, 195;

similarity in composites, 234;

time and space, 237;

part and limit, 239;

peace and liberty, 261;

sincerity, 264;

temperance, 265;

evolution, 270;

avarice, 272;

fortune, 272;

courage, 273;

simplicity, 273;

solicitude, 274;

beauty, 281, 283;

love, 281, 290

Pius V., Pope, 39

Plato, Timæus, 131;

Republic, 131

Platonism, Platonists, 128, 133

Plethon. See Gemistus, Georgius

Plotinus, 132, 133;

Enneads, 132, 168

Pognisi, Giordano Bruno, 96

Prague, 59

Pre-Aristotelians, the, 125

Predicates of God, 114;

of substance and nature, 115

Primum mobile, the, 185

Principle: cause, 155;

first or absolute, 166

Process, the infinite, 284

Progress, human, 269;

and perfection, 285

Prudence, the virtue of deliberative faculty, 275

Quarterly Review, 27, 34, 348

Ramus, Petrus, Dialectic of, 16, 324

Ratio or discursive thought, 341

Rationalism in Bruno, 301;

mediæval, 305

Reality of things, timeless, 321

Reuchlin, Johann, De arte cabbalistica, 131

Riches and poverty, 271

Riehl, Giordano Bruno, 69

Roche, La, Memoirs of Literature, 94

Roman people, Bruno on, 263

Rome, Bruno at, 10;

tribunal at, 91

Rudolph II., 59

Savolina, Fraulissa, mother of Bruno, 3

Schelling, 352

Scholastics, the, 137

Schopenhauer, 354

Schopp, Gaspar, 40, 94;

letter on Bruno’s death, 92, 350

Self-consciousness, 273

Sense-knowledge, relativity of, 232

Shakespeare, 34, 35

Sidney, Sir Philip, 12, 27, 31, 32, 35, 59, 357

Sigwart, 3, 52, 63–65, 67, 86, 337, 340, 342

Soul, the goods of the, 271;

the body, 286;

functions of the, 286;

hierarchy of, 313

Soul-principle in bodies, 216, 224

Spagnolo, Alfonso, 48

Spenser, Edmund, Cantos on Mutability, 33;

Færie Queen, 33

Spinoza on Bible interpretation, 108;

and Bruno, 176, 337–43;

De Deo seu Homine, 340, 342;

Ethics, 341

Spirit and matter, 161;

unity of, and body, 170

Stars, souls of the, 217

Stein, Ludwig, 346

Superstition and natural law, 7

Tansillo, affection of Bruno for, 5;

quoted, 283

Tasso, Aminta, 36, 268

Telesio, De natura rerum, 150

Temple of Wisdom, the, 57;

builders of, 128

Tennemann, Wilhelm G., 352

Theism in Bruno, 319

Theophilus of Varrano, 121

Tiraboschi, Girolamo, historian, 107

Tocco, Felice, Conferenza, 90;

Le Opere Latine de G. Bruno, 114, 225;

criticism of Lampas Triginta Statuarum, 115;

Le Opere Inedite di G. Bruno, 115, 116;

Le Fonti piu recenti, 138, 149

Toland, John, 38, 94, 349

Trinity, rejection of the, 109;

Cusanus’ proof of the, 145;

interpretation of the, 294, 295

Trismegistus, Mercurius or Hermes, 129

Truth, philosophical and theological, 76;

the “implicit universe,” 274, 275;

the twofold, 303

Universe, infinite in extent, 182, 183;

perfection of the, 190

Vacuum, the, 240

Vanini, Lucilio, burnt as a heretic at Toulouse, 17, 334

Vautrollier, bookseller, 34, 358

Venice, works published at, 11;

tribunal at, 73, 294, 357;

relation between, and the Pope, 85

Verifications of coincidence, 177

Vico, Marquis of, 12

Virtues, table of the, 259

Wagner in Bruno’s Opere Italiane, 89

Waldensian persecution, 8

Watson, Thomas, Compendium Memoriæ Localis, 36, 325;

translation of Tasso’s Aminta, 36

Whole and its parts, the, 186

Williams, L., 41

Wisdom reviewed, 275

Wittenberg, Bruno at, 51, 52;

works published at, 54, 55;

lectures at, 114;

notes dictated at, 115

Wittmann, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 135, 136

Works, Marburg edition, 113;

State edition, 113–115;

published during imprisonment and posthumously, 113–117;

Noroff collection, 116, 117

Worlds, innumerable, 191, 194;

decay of, 221

Zurich, Bruno at, 64;

work published at, 113

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