Miguel Angel Granada (Zaragoza, 1949) es catedratico de Historia de la Filosofia del Renacimiento en la Universidad de Barcelona desde 1990. Estudioso de reconocido prestigio internacional, se ocupa preferentemente de Giordano Bruno y la revolucion cosmologica de los siglos XVI y XVII, con sus implicaciones teologico-religiosas y antropologicas.

Es autor de los libros Cosmologia, religion y politica en el Renacimiento (Barcelona, 1988), El debate cosmologico en 1588 (Napoles, 1996), El umbra de la modernidad (Herder, Barcelona, 2000), La cosmologie infinitiste de Giordano Bruno (Paris, 2002), Sfere solide e cielo fluido. Momenti del dibattito cosmologico nella seconda metà del Cinquecento (Milan, 2002). Ha traducido al castellano obras de Maquiavelo, Francis Bacon, Erasmo, Campanella y sobre todo de Giordano Bruno (Candelero, La cena de las cenizas, Del infinito: el universo y los mundos, Expulsion de la bestia triunfante, Cabala del caballo Pegaso). Es miembro del equipo internacional editor de las Obras Completas de Giordano Bruno (Les Belles Lettres, Paris),.donde ha realizado el prologo a Del infinito (Paris, 1995) y el prologo y comentario a De gli eroici furori (Paris, 1999). Es ademas presidente del Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani Giovanni Aquilecchia. 

El presente estudio aborda algunos componentes centrales del pensamiento bruniano. En primer lugar, el desarrollo de la nueva cosmologia copernicana de una tierra en movimiento en la direccion de un universo infinito y homogéneo en el que cada estrella es centro de un sistema planetario donde la vida y el movimiento estan presentes por doquier. A continuacion, la critica del sectarismo religioso y de la colonizacion europea de América desde una concepcion de la funcion del Estado y de la religion en la que la ensenanza de Maquiavelo y la tradicion averroista articulan una redefinicion filosofica del lugar social de la religion cristiana que preludia la concepcion de Spinoza. Finalmente, la dimension teologica y antropologica del universo infinito y homogéneo, que, por su caracter de expresion necesaria de la causa divina, permite al intelecto heroico que lo conoce en su verdadera estructura la unica union posible con la divinidad y la perfeccion del hombre que constituyen en realidad el verdadero Paraiso y reino de Dios.

Part One:  Introduction

1 Giordano Bruno as Philosopher of the Renaissance (Giovanni Aquilecchia)

Part Two:  Bruno and Italy

2  The Image of Giordano Bruno (Lars Berggren)
3  Philosophy versus Religion and Science versus Religion: the Trials of Bruno and        Galileo ( Maurice A. Finocchiaro)
4 Giordano Bruno and Neapolitan Neoplatonism  (Ingrid D. Rowland)
5 Images of Literary Memory in the Italian Dialogues: Some Notes on Giordano Bruno  and Ludovico Ariosto  (Lina Bolzoni)

Part Three:  Bruno in England

6 Giordano Bruno and the Protestant Ethic  (Hilary Gatti)
7 John Charlewood, Printer of Giordano Bruno's Italian Dialogues, and his Book Production  (Tiziana Provvidera)
8 Giordano Bruno's Infinite Worlds in John Florio's Worlds of Words  (Michael Wyatt)
9 Ultima Thule: Contrasting Empires in Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper and Shakespeare's Tempest  (Elisabetta Tarantino)

Part Four:   Philosophical Themes

10 Giordano Bruno and Astrology  (Leen Spruit)
11 Simulacra et Signacula: Memory, Magic and Metaphysics in Brunian Mnemonics  (Stephen Clucas)
12 Metempsychosis and Monism in Bruno's nova filosofia (Ramon G. Mendoza)
13 The Necessity of the Minima in the Nolan Philosophy  (Ernesto Schettino)
14 Meanings of 'contractio' in Giordano Bruno's Sigillus sigillorum  (Leo Catana)

Part Five:   Influence and Tradition

15 Giordano Bruno's Mnemonics and Giambattista Vico's Recollective Philology   (Paul Colilli)
16 Macrocosm, Microcosm and the Circulation of the Blood: Bruno and Harvey  (Andrew Gregory)
17 Monadology and the Reception of Bruno in the Young Leibniz  (Stuart Brown)
18   Being a Modern Philosopher and Reading Giordano Bruno (Paul Richard Blum)

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from ItaIy to Northern Europe and England, and finalIy to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, which today are considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London, as a gentleman attendant to the French Ambassador, Michel de Castelnau. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and far which he claimed liberty of expression.

 The papers in this volume derive from a conference held in London to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death. A number focus specifically on his experience in England, while others look at the Italian context of his thought and his impact upon others. Together they constitute a major new survey of the range of Bruno's philosophical activity, as well as evaluating his use of earlier cultural traditions and his influence on both contemporary and more modern themes and trends.




Hilary Gatti is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy.
She published in 1999 the important essay: 
"Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science"