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Giordano Bruno a Praga tra Lullismo, matematica e filosofia
No full textIn 1588, from early spring to autumn, Giordano Bruno spent
six months in Prague, living at the Spanish embassy. Here he attended at the
edition of two works: De specierum scrutinio, a lullian text composed of De lam-
pade combinatoria Lulliana and De compendiosa architectura, and Articuli centum et
sexaginta adversus mathematicos. If the first recalled the two lullian works pub-
lished by Bruno in Paris and Wittenberg, the second offered a new geomet-
rical model, founded on minimum, a new conceptual object under which he
brought together unity, atom and geometrical point. Thus, here he began a
new theoretical season which reached its fulfillment with the Frankfurt poems,
especially De triplici minimo et mensura. In this article I aim to demonstrate the
intellectual framework, from Prague to Helmstedt, which supported Bruno’s
philosophical searching about this new status of matter, within this peculiar
theory of atomistic geometry. I focus my reflections on those students who
met Bruno at Helmstedt and followed him to Padua
Giordano Bruno, Pitagora e i pitagorici : distanze e debiti
No full textI rapporti tra Giordano Bruno e le fonti pitagoriche sono mediati da
un denso stratificarsi di testimoni e riferimenti secondari, tra i quali
spiccano le citazioni aristoteliche e platoniche. Ed è proprio tra questi
due autori, Aristotele e Platone, che si colloca l’utilizzo strumentale
da parte di Bruno della figura e del pensiero di Pitagora e della sua
Scuola, usati come mezzo concettuale per accentuare in senso
universale e infinitistico certi aspetti naturalistici dell’aristotelismo
e, al tempo stesso e in una direzione opposta, depotenziare la
trascendenza dell’ontologia platonica, portandola a maggiore
‘contatto’ e prossimità teorica con la propria visione di una natura
infinita e in incessante trasformazione. In questa ottica Pitagora e il
pitagorismo risultano essere, agli occhi di Bruno, fondamento primario
di una concezione unitaria del cosmo – derivato dalla monade –,
importante paradigma concettuale per esplorare e approfondire l’idea
dell’animazione spirituale dell’universo e, infine, archetipo teorico
per una visione corpuscolare e atomistica della materialità
La Figuratio Aristotelici Physici auditus di Giordano Bruno: luoghi e immagini per una 'nuova' Fisica di Aristotele
No full textGiordano Bruno e l'ombra della conoscenza
No full textGiordano Bruno’s theory of the “shadows of ideas” (De umbris idearum, Paris 1582) exposes a gnoseological paradigm founded on a new equilibrium
among the three “worlds” or “degree” of Being: metaphysical, natural and logical. It envolves that human cognition, experience and thought proceed from nature, while the whole physical universe belongs straightly from divine essence. Then an unique and eternal substance projects itself from natural bodies on human mind through sensory experience and imagination: the fragmentation and scattering of thruth of an infinite variety of raw data of experience makes arise the need for a regulative method, capable of composing them in an vision unified, as close as possible, how the complexity of natural cosmos is
Between geometric schemes and mnemonic images: the three paradigmatic figures of Giordano Bruno’s Articuli adversus mathematicos
No full textGiordano Bruno’s Articuli adversus mathematicos (Prague 1588) is an emblematic text for more than one reason: it contains a harsh critique of the astronomical measurement techniques in use at the time, but also a radical attack on the theoretical foundations of geometry itself, proposing a discrete notion of basic geometric objects such as the point, the line, the plane, and solid figures. Moreover, Bruno enriches the text with some important references to the art of memory, not only to make his argument easier to understand, but also to offer concrete mnemotechnical tools to help the reader perceive and remember the geometric constructions he proposes. In this sense, the three archetypal images are a unique attempt to construct graphic schematisations to illustrate and memorise (by means of a technical tool
called sigillus) the main propositions of Euclidis Elements, as well as the particular theoretical approach that Bruno gives to his geometry
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