"The main movement of Bruno's mind is in the sense of a  spiral, not a straight line."
I think that this phrase, from "The wheel of time", summarizes Michele Ciliberto's great intuition:
to provide for Bruno's thought a "dynamic" interpretation, without lose sight of his temperament and his human vicissitudes' evolution. Ciliberto keeps himself far away from schematism, bringing light on the planned organic unity of the Nolan philosophy and putting in evidence the limits and the harmful consequencies of any monothematic interpretations, such as Frances Yates' one, although it's innovative and precious in its analysis of  hermetic aspects.
                                                                                                                                            (G. del Giudice)

                                                                                                                                 

Michele Ciliberto 


born: Naples, July 16, 1945
marr.: Anna Maria Pizziolo
e.: three
address.: c/o Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi, Piazza Torricelli 3/4, 1-56 100 Pisa tel.: (+39) 050911515  e-mail:  cilibert@iris.firenze.it 
home.: Via P.A. Mattioli 51, 1-50139 Firenze tel.: (+39) 055490096
educ.: Liceo Genovesi, Naples; degree Univ. of Florence
car.: full prof. Univ. of Trieste; at present, pres. Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (National Institute of Renaissance Studies);
chmn. Comitato Nazionale per le Onoranze a Giordano Bruno (National Committee for Tribute to Giordano Bruno);
since 1993, full prof. of history of philosophy, Univ. of Pisa;
 mem. Sectoral Committee for Library Patrimony, Central Office for Library Patrimony, Cultural Institutes and Publishing, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities
publs.: "Lessico di G. Bruno" (1979); "Filosofia e politica in Italia" (1982); "La ruota del tempo. Interpretazione di G. Bruno" (1986, 1992); "Giordano Bruno" (1990, 1992); "Giordano Bruno 1583-1585. The English Experience" (with Nicholas Mann,  Warburg Institute's director, 1997) "Umbra profunda" (1999); author of the preface and editor "Giordano Bruno. Dialoghi filosofici italiani", Meridiani - Classici dello Spirito, Mondadori (2000) and "Opere magiche"(2001).
 Author of the introduction "www. Giordano Bruno" by Guido del Giudice (2001)
recr.: hiking, classical music.
See Survey: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento

 

 

                                                 



 

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