The Ash Wednesday Supper: A New Translation (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.

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.

Giordano Bruno Wrote This Dialogue In 1583. The Ash Wednesday Supper Is Concerned With Two Major Themes: A Cosmological Theme Concerning The New Post Copernican Astronomy And Bruno's Infinitist Reading Of It; And The Other A Social/historical Theme Concerning The English Society, Both High And Low, Of Which Bruno Was A Guest And With Which He Developed A Complex And Often Conflictual Relationship.-- Giordano Bruno ; A New Translation Of La Cena De Le Ceneri With The Italian Text Annotated And Introduced By Hilary Gatti. Text In Original Italian And In English Translation On Facing Pages. Published In Collaboration With The Ucla Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Text In Original Italian And In English Translation On Facing Pages. "Giordano Bruno wrote this dialogue in 1583. The Ash Wednesday Supper is concerned with two major themes: a cosmological theme concerning the new post Copernican astronomy and Bruno's infinitist reading of it; and the other a social/historical theme concerning the english society, both high and low, of which Bruno was a guest and with which he developed a complex and often conflictual relationship."-- Provided by publisher CONTENTS 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 A Note on the Text 57 List of Figures 63 LA CENA DE LE CENERI / THE ASH WEDNESDAY SUPPER 70 Proemiale epistola / Introductory Letter 70 Dialogo Primo / Dialogue I 84 Dialogo Secondo / Dialogue II 118 Dialogo Terzo / Dialogue III 151 Dialogo Quarto / Dialogue IV 203 Dialogo Quinto / Dialogue V 231 Appendix 270 Notes 291 Bibliography 349 Index 357