Giordano Bruno
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in Renaissance philosophy and intellectual history
- Those who enjoy English aestheticist prose and literary biography
- Readers who want to see how Bruno was interpreted in the nineteenth century
- Students needing an English public-domain work on ideas for further reading
Not a good fit for
- Researchers expecting modern scholarly research and detailed source notes
- Readers who only want a quick chronology of Bruno's life and scientific conclusions
- Beginners with little patience for nineteenth-century English prose
Reading tips
- Read a brief background of Bruno's life first, then enter Pater's text, so as not to be led astray by the prose style.
- After each chapter, note Pater's key statements on intellectual freedom and the infinite universe.
- Read alongside other works of intellectual history to distinguish Pater's era-specific perspective and literary interpretation.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Walter Pater (1839–1894) was an English essayist and literary critic, and the theoretical representative of the Aesthetic movement. Born in London, he taught for many years at Brasenose College, Oxford. His Studies in the History of the Renaissance, published in 1873, set out the doctrine of art for art's sake, stressing the transience of aesthetic experience and the intensity of individual sensation. He also wrote the philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean and Imaginary Portraits, as well as Appreciations and Plato and Platonism. His refined, suggestive and musical prose exerted a profound influence on Oscar Wilde and later writers. The collection holds 14 of his works.
