Contents

Massimiliano Traversino Di Cristo

Foreword    7

PART 1

LAW, THEOLOGY, AND POLITICS
IN BRUNO’S PHILOSOPHY
AND HIS TIME

Alberto Bondolfi

Quel rôle pour la théologie dans le De potestate civili
de Francisco de Vitoria ?   11

Angelika Bönker-Vallon

Lois et bagatelles.

Remarques concernant l’idée
de la providence divine chez Giordano Bruno    25

Matthias Kaufmann

The concept of law in light of the Spaccio della bestia trionfante   41

Alain Wijffels

Alberico Gentili and the ideal of international governance   53

Maria Stefania Montecalvo

Celio Secondo Curione.

The re-discovery of classicism,
religious reform, and political change  79

PART 2

GIORDANO BRUNO’S
PHILOSOPHICAL REFORM.
HIS INFINITE AND THE NOTION
OF VICISSITUDE

Angelika Bönker-Vallon

Cosmology after Copernicus.
Innovation and restoration in Giordano Bruno’s
The Ash Wednesday Supper    99

Ingrid D. Rowland

Vicissitudo in the Eroici Furori of Giordano Bruno (1585)   113

Sergius Kodera

Staging vicissitudine in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio   129

Hilary Gatti

Giordano Bruno’s Ash Wednesday Supper as a prelude
to Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Major World Systems   153

Miguel Ángel Granada

Dios y el espacio en la filosofía de Giordano Bruno   173

Paul Richard Blum

Two kinds of infinity.

Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno   195

PART 3

ETHICS, LAW,
AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
ON SOUL AND IMMORTALITY

Elisabeth Blum

Panpsychism in Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella   207

Raffaele Carbone

Ethics and law in Montaigne and Bruno   219

Jean-Paul De Lucca

Law and religion in Bruno’s Spaccio de la bestia trionfante
and Campanella’s L’Ateismo trionfato   241

Dilwyn Knox

The world soul and individual souls.

Two notes on Giordano Bruno’s Lampas triginta statuarum   275

Angelika Bönker-Vallon

Adam and Eve in early modern anthropology.

Giordano Bruno’s position on preadamitic life
and his defense of the concept of anima mundi   301

Paul Richard Blum

Giordano Bruno’s satire of the transmigration
of the souls in his Cabala   317

PART 4

RELIGIOUS WARFARE,
EUROPEAN STATE-BUILDING,
AND LITERARY POLEMICS

Elisabetta Tarantino

History and religion in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio   335

Sergius Kodera

Staging an early modern metropolitan labyrinth.

The experience of place and space
in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio   355

Raffaele Ruggiero

François Baudouin and the model of Roman jurisprudence
in early modern state-building during
European religious warfare   395

Alberto Bondolfi

Wie evoluiert die Lehre des Widerstandsrechts
in der „reformierten“ Reformation?

Zwingli, Calvin und die französischen Monarchomachen   407

Thomas Leinkauf

Martin Luther und Giordano Bruno.

Eine indirekte und asymmetrische Konfrontation   421

Index of names   447

Contributors   463

Abstracts   467