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
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;
Topics, 55;
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
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
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;
enters Dominican Order, 9;
became priest, 9;
at Rome, 10;
at Geneva, 12;
before Consistory, 15;
Doctor in Theology and professor, 16;
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;
abjuration of errors, 81;
remitted to Rome, 84;
orthodoxy, 87;
grounds for death, 97;
mission, 103;
dislike of pedantry, 105;
originality, 107;
optimism in philosophy,
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;
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;
“The Thirty Divine Attributes,” 17;
De Umbris, 18, 19, 103, 107, 115, 310, 324;
Ars Memoriæ, 18;
De Compendiosa Architectura, 19, 140, 141;
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
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
Coincidence of all things in One, 172, 176;
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
De orbium cœlestium Revolutionibus, 150
Culpepper, Warden of New College, 26
Cusanus. See Nicolaus of Cusa.
Death and life contrasted, 289
Democritus, 126
Desire, human, 181
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
Douglas, Archibald, 47
Dufour, Théophil, 14
Earth, the, 208; as centre of gravity, 190;
its movements, 211;
and suns, 211
Egyptian theosophy, 130;