The Ash Wednesday Supper

A New Translation

Giordano Bruno, Hilary Gatti, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini

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University of Toronto Press
20 February 2018

History; Archaeology; History of religion; Mathematics & Sciences; History of science

Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library

Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and reducing earth to a tiny speck in an overwhelmingly immense cosmos, Bruno offers a lively description of his clash of opinions with the conservative academics and theologians he argued with in Oxford and London.

This volume, containing what has recently been claimed as the final version of Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper, presents a new translation based on a newly edited text, with critical comment that takes account of the most current discussion of the textual, historical, cosmological and philosophical issues raised in this dialogue. It considers Bruno's work as a seminal text of the late European renaissance.

By: Giordano Bruno, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini
Edited and translated by: Hilary Gatti
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781487521400
ISBN 10: 1487521405
Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 20 February 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. A Note on the Text 3. Complete Italian Text: newly edited according to the so-called vulgate version 4. Translation of the Dedication (+ notes) 5. Translation of Dialogue 1 (+ notes) 6. Translation of Dialogue 2 (+ notes) 7. Translation of Dialogue 3 (+ notes) 8. Translation of Dialogue 4 (+ notes) 9. Translation of Dialogue 5 (+ notes) 10. Appendix: Alternative Italian text of folio D 11. Appendix: Alternative English translation of folio D 12. Bibliography of Cited Works

Reviews for The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation

"""The volume’s most important contributions to Bruno studies are the extended ""Notes"" that offer background, interpretation, and explanation of Bruno’s provocative debate."" -- Paul Richard Blum, Loyola University Maryland * Isis, vol 110, 1 *"