Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Routledge

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• Corpus Hermeticum reaches Medici Florence pp. 15-16

  It is very improbable that Clement knew any of the Hermetica which have come down to us,3 but the Renaissance reader believed that he had in…

• Cosimo de' Medici orders Ficino to translate Hermes pp. 15-16

  Cosimo, he says, had handed over to him the works of Plato for translation. But in the year 1463 word came to Ficino from Cosimo that he mus…

• Death of Cosimo de' Medici pp. 15-16

  But in the year 1463 word came to Ficino from Cosimo that he must translate Hermes first, at once, and go on afterwards to Plato; "mihi Merc…

• Ficino's Pimander printed for the first time pp. 17-18

  A very large number of manuscripts of it exist, more than of any other work by Ficino. It was printed for the first time in 1471 and went th…

• Pico della Mirandola publishes his Apology pp. 68-73

  Despite his condemnation, Pico published his Apology, together with part of the oration on the Dignity of Man. The edition is dated May, 148…

• Pico retracts and is absolved by the Pope pp. 68-73

  Despite his condemnation, Pico published his Apology, together with part of the oration on the Dignity of Man. The edition is dated May, 148…

• Alexander VI succeeds Innocent VIII as pope pp. 68-73

  The basic case for this controversy is the Pico case, and the arguments used by Pico's attackers and defenders. In the last years of his lif…

• Alexander VI absolves Pico of all heresy charges pp. 68-73

  Unlike his predecessor, the Borgia pope was not at all averse to astrology and magic, but, on the contrary, was deeply interested in those s…

• Death of Pico della Mirandola pp. 68-73

  He was therefore allowed to live in Florence, though under rather a cloud, and his way of life was one of extreme piety and asceticism, unde…

• Lefevre d'Etaples publishes edition of Ficino's Pimander pp. 104-105

  Lefevre had visited Italy, and met Ficino and Pico. He spoke of himself as a disciple and warm admirer of Ficino, and his edition of Ficino'…

• Lefevre combines Pimander and Asclepius with commentary pp. 104-105

  He spoke of himself as a disciple and warm admirer of Ficino, and his edition of Ficino's Pimander was published in France, by the Universit…

• Champier publishes De Quadruplici Vita pp. 104-105

  Symphorien Champier of Lyons was a leading apostle of Neo- platonism in France, and an admirer of Ficino. In his De Quadru- plici Vita (Lyon…

• Casaubon dates the Hermetica after ancient Hermes pp. 104-105

  It is significant that when Isaac Casaubon in 1614 pointed out for the first time for twelve centuries (Lactantius to Casaubon is about twel…

• Giordano Bruno born in Nola pp. 112-114

  We have been preparing for him all along, for it is only by putting him into the context of the history of Hermetism in the Renaissance that…

• Bruno enters the Dominican Order in Naples pp. 112-114

  He never "lost traces of this volcanic and Neapolitan origin, and was proud to call himself "the Nolan", born under a kindly sky. He entered…

• Bruno flees the Dominican Order over heresy pp. 112-114

  He entered the Dominican Order in 1563, and became an inmate of the great Dominican convent in Naples, where Thomas Aquinas is buried. In 15…

• Bruno reaches Paris and attracts Henri III pp. 112-114

  Thereafter began his life of wandering through Europe. After trying Calvin's Geneva which he did not like, nor was he liked by the Calvinist…

• Bruno's Cantus Circaeus published pp. 119-120

  Regnault says that Bruno had given him the manuscript and asked him to edit it for publication. Published in 1582, the same year as the De u…

• Bruno publishes De l'infinito universo e mondi pp. 141-142

  De I'infinito universo e mondi2- the same message is many times repeated

• Bruno publishes Oratio valedictoria at Wittenberg pp. 141-142

  Oratio valedictoria, Wittenberg, 1588 (Op. lat., I (I), pp. 16-17).

• Bruno publishes Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo pp. 147-148

  In his Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo, printed in England in 1585, with the false imprint "Paris"

• Mordente publishes his new compass design pp. 168-169

  which he published in Paris in 1585.

• Bruno leaves England with ambassador Mauvissiere pp. 168-169

  In October, 1585, Mauvissiere, the French ambassador, left England, having been recalled, and Bruno went with him in his suite.

• Bruno publishes Centum et viginti articuli in Paris pp. 170-171

  These articles were published in Paris in 1586 by the author, under the name of his disciple, Jean Hennequin

• Bruno debates at the College de Cambrai pp. 170-171

  The theses were sustained by Hennequin, Bruno's disciple

• Bruno leaves Paris for Germany pp. 174-179

  Bruno was still in Paris on August 4th, 1586, the date of Corbinelli's letter to Pinelli

• Bruno teaches at Wittenberg University pp. 174-179

  At Wittenberg, where Bruno stayed for two years (1586-8)

• Bruno leaves Wittenberg for Prague pp. 182-183

  Early in 1588, Bruno left Wittenberg for Prague where he stayed for about six months.

• Bruno publishes Articuli adversus mathematicos in Prague pp. 182-183

  which was published at Prague, and which had the provocative title of Articuli adversus mathematicos?

• Bruno matriculates at Helmstedt University pp. 182-183

  Iordanus Brunus Nolanus Italus" matriculated at the Julian university of Brunswick, at Helmstedt, on January 13th, 1589.

• Kepler contrasts mathematical and Hermetic diagrams pp. 139-140

  in 1621, Kepler analysed the difference between his own and Fludd's use of diagrams

• Bruno leaves Padua for Venice pp. 203-204

  Bruno left Padua for Venice in March, 1592

• Bruno arrested by the Venetian Inquisition pp. 203-204

  incarcerated on May 26th, 1592.3 On that day began for Bruno eight years of imprisonment ending in death

• Bruno recants before Venetian Inquisitors pp. 203-204

  At the end of the Venetian trial, Bruno fully recanted all the heresies of which he was accused

• Bellarmine draws up heretical propositions from Bruno pp. 203-204

  In 1599 an effort was made to clarify the situation by the famous Jesuit, Robert Bellarmine

• Bruno withdraws his recantation pp. 203-204

  drew all his retractions, obstinately maintaining that he had never written or said anything heretical

• Bruno burned at the stake in Rome pp. 203-204

  He was burned alive on the Campo de' Fiori in Rome on February 17th, 1600.

• Tommaso Campanella born in Calabria pp. 209-210

  Campanella was born at Stilo, in Calabria, in 1568

• Bruno enters the Dominican Order in Naples pp. 209-210

  Bruno entered the Dominican Order and the Dominican convent in Naples in 1563.

• Bruno leaves the Dominican Order in Naples pp. 209-210

  In 1576 Bruno left the Order and the convent in Naples, having been proceeded against for heresy

• Campanella enters the Dominican Order pp. 209-210

  Nineteen years later, in 1582, Campanella entered the Dominican Order

• Campanella meets Galileo in Padua pp. 209-210

  In October, 1592, Campanella came to Padua

• Campanella imprisoned in Padua pp. 209-210

  Whilst in prison in Padua in 1593 and 1594 he wrote works addressed to Clement VIII.

• Campanella transferred to the Roman Inquisition pp. 209-210

  At the end of 1594, Campanella was transferred to the prisons of the Inquisition in Rome

• Campanella released from Roman prison pp. 209-210

  he was released from prison at the end of 1595

• Campanella leaves Rome for Naples pp. 209-210

  At the end of 1597, Campanella left Rome for Naples

• Campanella organizes Calabrian revolt against Spain pp. 211-212

  in 1598 and 1599, he organised the revolt against the Spanish government.

• Calabrian revolt crushed by Spanish forces pp. 211-212

  by the end of 1599 the prisons of Naples were full of rebellious Dominicans and their friends being examined