Expulsión de la bestia triunfante / Los heroicos furores

by Giordano Bruno

La Expulsión de la bestia triunfante y De los heroicos furores son las dos obras más provocativas que el filósofo napolitano Giordano Bruno escribió en italiano. En la Expulsión de la bestia triunfante, acomete una reforma moral en pro de los valores de la verdad y de la ley, la superación de los particularismos religiosos y un espíritu crítico que representa Momo, el dios burlón por antonomasia. Bruno da a su reforma un encuadre cósmico y la forma de diálogo entre los dioses que llevan a cabo la expulsión y representan las facultades humanas. De los heroicos furores trata del frenesí amoroso, yendo de la animalidad más ruda a la intelectualidad más refinada. Bruno inserta en esta obra una buena parte de su poesía junto con las sugestivas reflexiones filosóficas que aquélla le inspira, al tiempo que dispone en el escenario de la filosofía un amplísimo elenco de imágenes y emblemas amorosos. Además, en esta obra exhibe lo mejor de su arte literario y lo más «heroico» y «furioso» de su pensamiento.

472 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, who is best known as a proponent of the infinity of the universe. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in identifying the Sun as just one of an infinite number of independently moving heavenly bodies: he is the first European man to have conceptualized the universe as a continuum where the stars we see at night are identical in nature to the Sun. He was burned at the stake by authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. After his death he gained considerable fame; in the 19th and early 20th centuries, commentators focusing on his astronomical beliefs regarded him as a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas. Recent assessments suggest that his ideas about the universe played a smaller role in his trial than his pantheist beliefs, which differed from the interpretations and scope of God held by Catholicism.[1][2] In addition to his cosmological writings, Bruno also wrote extensive works on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. More recent assessments, beginning with the pioneering work of Frances Yates, suggest that Bruno was deeply influenced by the astronomical facts of the universe inherited from Arab astrology, Neoplatonism and Renaissance Hermeticism.[3] Other recent studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial paradigms of geometry to language.[4]

Reviews

[Lette Hass · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bruno, "llama al pan, pan; al vino, vino; a la cabeza, cabeza;al pie, pie. Dice al comer, comer; al dormir, dormir; al beber, beber; y así a los demás actos naturales los designa con sus títulos propios. Estima a los filósofos como filósofos, a los pedantes como pedantes, a los monjes como monjes, a los ministros como ministros, a los inútiles, charlatanes, titiriteros, estafadores, ..., como lo que dicen, muestra y son."