The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), one of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in 1600. The primary evidence against him was the book Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, a daring indictment of the church that abounded in references to classical Greek mythology, Egyptian religion (especially the worship of Isis), Hermeticism, magic, and astrology.

The author of more than sixty works on mathematics, science, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory, and esoteric mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought.

• De Umbris Idearum: On the Shadows of Ideas
• On the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds: Five Cosmological Dialogues (Giordano Bruno Collected Works) (Volume 2)
• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
• Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
• Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic
• Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander
• The Art of Memory
• Thirty Seals & The Seal Of Seals (Giordano Bruno Collected Works) (Volume 4)
• The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
• The Sepher Bahir: Book Of Light