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Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass /
In this highly original study, Nuccio Ordine uses the figure of the ass as a lens through which to focus on the thought and writings of the great Renaissance humanist philosopher Giordano Bruno. The donkey played a prominent role as a symbol in sixteenth-century literature, and for Bruno the ass and...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Bruno and the Ass: A Long-Deferred Questlon
- 2 Myths, Fables, Tales: The "Asinine" Materials
- 3 The Ass and Mercury: A Key to Coincidentla Oppositorum
- 4 The Ambiguous Space of Asininity
- 5 Man and the Ass, between "Bestiality" and "Divinity"
- 6 Positive Asininity Toil, Humility, Tolerance
- 7 Negative Asininity: Idleness, Arrogance, Unidimensionality
- 8 The Oration of Fortune
- 9 In the Labyrinth of Truth
- 10 From Orion to Chiron: Opposing Images of the Religious Cult
- 11 The Ass in the Guise of the Sileni: Appearances Are Deceptive
- 12 The Literature of the Ass before Bruno
- 13 The Entropy of Writing
- 14 Natural Science and Human Science: A "Nouvelle Alliance"
- Iconographical Collection
- Notes
- Index