Preface : PREFACE. WHEN this Translation was begun, more than two years ago, for my own pleasure, in leisure hours, I had no knowledge of the difficulty I should find in the work, nor any thought of ever having it printed; but as "Gli Eroici Furori" of Giordano Bruno has never appeared in English, I decided...
Fifth Dialogue : p. 121 FIFTH DIALOGUE I. CIC. Now show me how I may be able for myself to consider the conditions of these enthusiasts, through that which appears in the order of the warfare here described. TANS. Behold how they carry the ensign of their affections or fortunes. Let us leave the considerati...
First Dialogue : p. 35 THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS. FIRST DIALOGUE. TANSILLO, CICADA. TANS. The enthusiasms most suitable to be first brought forward and considered are those that I now place before you in the order that seems to me most fitting. CIC. Begin, then, to read. TANSILLO. I. Ye Muses, that so oft I have...
Title Page. Part 6 : THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS ("GLI EROICI FURORI") An Ethical Poem BY GIORDANO BRUNO PART THE SECOND TRANSLATED BY L. WILLIAMS LONDON BERNARD QUARITCH PICCADILLY [1889] LONDON: G. NORMAN AND SON, PRINTERS, HART STREET, COVENT GARDEN Scanned , June 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is...
Untitled : THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS ("GLI EROICI FURORI") BY GIORDANO BRUNO TRANSLATED BY L. WILLIAMS [1887 And 1889] This heavily allegorical dialogue by Giordano Bruno is a philosophical discussion of love. At a deeper layer it uses this topic as a mnemonic device to encode a discussion of the nature...
Title Page. Part 2 : p. 70 THIRD DIALOGUE "Interlocutors": LIBERIO. LAODONIO. LIB. Reclining in the shade of a cypress-tree, the enthusiast finding his mind free from other thoughts, it happened that the heart and the eyes spoke. together as if they were animals and substances of different intellects and senses...
Fourth Dialogue : p. 90 FOURTH DIALOGUE TANSILLO THUS is described the discourse of heroic love, in all which tends to its own object, which is the highest good; and heroic intellect, which devotes itself to the study of its own object, which is the primal verity, or absolute truth. Now the first discourse holds...
Third Dialogue : p. 69 THIRD DIALOGUE. TANSILLO. THERE are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced to two kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and irrational impetuosity, which tend towards savage madness, others by divine abstraction become in reality superior to ordinary men...
Title Page. Part 4 : p. 1 SECOND PART OF THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS. FIRST DIALOGUE. "Interlocutors": CESARINO. MARICONDO. I. CES. It is said that the best and most excellent things are in the world when the whole universe responds from every part, perfectly, to those things; and this it is said takes place as the planets...
Title Page : THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS ("GLI EROICI FURORI") An Ethical Poem BY GIORDANO BRUNO PART THE FIRST TRANSLATED BY L. WILLIAMS WITH AN INTRODUCTION, COMPILED CHIEFLY FROM DAVID LEVI'S "GIORDIANO BRUNO O LA RELIGIONE DEL PENSIERO" LONDON GEORGE REDWAY YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN [1887] Scanned , August 2002...
The Apology Of The Nolan To The Most Virtuous : p. 171 THE APOLOGY OF THE NOLAN TO THE MOST VIRTUOUS AND LOVELY LADIES. O LOVELY, graceful nymphs of England! Not in repugnance nor in scorn, Our spirit holds you, Nor would our pen abase you More than it must--to call you feminine! Exemption I am sure you would not claim Being subject...
Title Page. Part 1 : p. 88 FOURTH DIALOGUE. "Interlocutors": SEVERINO. MINUTOLO. SEV. You will see the origin of the nine blind men, who state nine reasons and special causes of their blindness, and yet they all agree in one general reason and one common enthusiasm. 1 MIN. Begin with the first! SEV. The first of these...
Title Page. Part 5 : p. iii PREFACE. THE second part of "The Heroic Enthusiasts" which I am now sending to the press is on the same subject as the first, namely the struggles of the soul in its upward progress towards purification and freedom, and the author makes use of lower things to picture and suggest the higher...
Errata : ERRATA. Page 3, line 10, "for also mother read also my mother" " 35, line 11, "for myrtle read myrtle," " 37, line 16, "for setting as read setting them as" " 47, line 9, "for poisons read poison" " 61, line 1, "for And, read And" line 1, "for hell, read hell."
Title Page. Part 3 : p. 51 SECOND DIALOGUE MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which is written: Levius aura; which means that Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty...
Title Page. Part 02 : p. 113 FIFTH DIALOGUE. "Interlocutors": LAODOMIA. GIULIA. LAO. Some other time, oh my sister, thou wilt hear what happened to those nine blind men, who were at first nine most beautiful and amorous youths, who being so inspired by the loveliness of your face, and having no hope of receiving...
Second Dialogue : p. 54 SECOND DIALOGUE TANSILLO. Now begins the enthusiast to display the affections. and uncover the wounds which are for a sign in his body, and in substance or essence in his soul, and he says thus: 9. Of Love the standard-bearer I; My hopes are ice, and glowing my desires. At once I tremble...
Introduction : p. 1 INTRODUCTION. NOLA, a city founded by the Chalcidian Greeks, at a short distance from Naples and from Vesuvius, was the birth-place of Giordano Bruno. It is described by David Levi as a city which from ancient times had always been consecrated to science and letters. From the time...
