De Magia
by Giordano Bruno
Translated by Paul Summers Young.
Cover Design, Cover, and Layout by Alice Rocchetti.
Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) is at once significant and enigmatic; a 16th-century Wittgenstein whose far-reaching interests and passionate investment in his subject matter carried him far beyond his contemporaries conceptually. By the same token, his commitment to what he considered valid, and his inability to read the room, led him into continuous conflict with his peers, and ultimately spelled his end…
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Black Letter Press
Hardcover bound in Red Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin, 427 Pages, including detailed index at the end, Measures 140x215 mm, Black Endpapers, Thread Sewn Book Block printed on wood free, age resistant Cream paper, Front and spine are decorated and titled in gold gilt.
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Black Letter Press
The cover is made of a thick Fedrigoni carton. It is thread sewn and the book block is made of rough ivory, wood-free, age-resistant paper. It measures 140 x 215 mm and is printed and bound by Grafiche Veneziane in Venice, Italy. The book has 427 Pages, including a detailed index at the end.
About the Publisher
Black Letter Press is a small independent publisher located close to Hannover in Northern Germany, founded by Alice and Claudio Rocchetti in 2018 in Turin, with the publication of Giambattista della Porta's Natural Magick.
BLP specializes in the revival of rare and antique books on a broad range of topics, including the sciences and history of science, poetry, occult philosophy, art, curious and unusual literature, and more.
Our mission is to do these historical texts justice, publishing books that are fine and beautiful, yet remaining affordable and accessible.
Description
Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) is at once significant and enigmatic; a 16th-century Wittgenstein whose far-reaching interests and passionate investment in his subject matter carried him far beyond his contemporaries conceptually. By the same token, his commitment to what he considered valid, and his inability to read the room, led him into continuous conflict with his peers, and ultimately spelled his end. Our edition is focused on his magical literature, and is a new translation based on the Tocco and Vitelli research:
De Magia Mathematica
De Magia Naturali
Theses De Magia
De Vinculis in Genere
De Rerum Principiis et Elementis et Causis
Medicina Lulliana
Lampas Triginta Statuarum
Giordano Bruno was born in 1548, at Nola in the Kingdom of Naples. He entered the Dominican Order in Naples, and was ordained in 1572; however, he was soon forced to flee, and spent the rest of his life a philosopher at large, travelling through Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and England. He was imprisoned for seven years in Rome on a range of charges relating to his opinions and disregard for authority, and was executed in the Campo de' Fiori in 1600.
A NEW TRANSLATION
Giordano Bruno is more often spoken of than actually read. While his work has been translated and published, and very widely discussed, much of that material is out of print, or accessible only in scarce academic publications. And yet he casts a literal shadow across the subject; his monument in the Campo de' Fiori has become an icon of philosophical, and especially esoteric, free thought.
We hope our new translation of Giordano's Latin magical texts will make him more accessible to a general readership, and as with all our projects, stimulate our reader's interest and imagination in the field as a whole.
