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In 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 lampade combinatoria... more
In 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 lampade combinatoria Lulliana and De compendiosa architectura, and Articuli centum et sexaginta adversus mathematicos. If the first recalled the two lullian works published by Bruno in Paris and Wittenberg, the second offered a new geometrical 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.
I 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... more
I 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.
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Voce 'Minimo' tratta da Giordano Bruno. Parole, concetti, immagini, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2014
Voce 'Atomo' tratta da Giordano Bruno. Parole, concetti, immagini, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2014.
Giordano 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... more
Giordano 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.
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The Sigillus sigillorum (London 1583), even if conceived as part a of a trypthic about mnemotechnical art, is a work of Giordano Bruno that reveals an indipendent teorethical worthiness. Its genesis and composition is a typicall... more
The Sigillus sigillorum (London 1583), even if conceived as part a of a trypthic about mnemotechnical art, is a work of Giordano Bruno that reveals an indipendent teorethical worthiness. Its genesis and composition is a typicall expression of Bruno's peregrinatio, that is the art to gain the core concepts of its revolutionay philosophy proceeding from memory. The Sigillus sigillorum develops a comparaison with the theories of Marsilio Ficino towards the faculties of the soul, the connection between soul and body, and generally about knowledge means. In this work, basing his though about organical relationship between phantasy, memory and intellect...
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Ars combinatoria and Ars memoriae in Giordano Bruno 1) If we examine the relationship between Lull's art and Bruno's mnemotechnic, first we must consider if and how Bruno was a Lullist. Indeed, their own theoretical frameworks are... more
Ars combinatoria and Ars memoriae in Giordano Bruno 1) If we examine the relationship between Lull's art and Bruno's mnemotechnic, first we must consider if and how Bruno was a Lullist. Indeed, their own theoretical frameworks are completely different, because the Christian and theological background of Lull's system is totally absent in Bruno's perspective. Lull settles his universe unfolding a triadic and hierarchic transmission from God down to materiality, (passing through human faculties), as the nine degrees of the Alphabet symbolize. Differently, Bruno develops a natural philosophy within an infinite cosmological horizon, absolutely detached from God, without any hierarchy inside: all beings-be they stars, planets or human beings-are ontologically equal, made by the same matter, be alive due to a unique universal soul. Consequently, human beings are totally absorbed by the natural world, as well as their knowledge. Though, hostile to any mystical and anthropocentric perspective, Bruno only faces God through the infinity of the whole nature: in fact the «Eorico furioso» prefers contemplating naked Diana's inner essence-i.e. the substantia naturalis-, to Apollo's surface that theologists used to inquire by reason. This theoretical stance is partially due to a shift from a Platonic gnoseology to a 'hard' Aristotelianism: what we know is not proper ideas, but «shadows of ideas» (umbrae idearum) projecting truth from God (the «light»), through nature (the «dark body») to the mind (the «shadowy surface»). Thus, human knowledge completely results in natural and perceptible experience: the more complex and complete it is, the more it will tend to be true. Finally, rationalism is only a part of the whole intellectual process, whereas the central role has played by fantasy as a 'screen' which connects reality with inner concepts: every thought belongs to a particular image and-forcing Aristotle's De anima-without images, man cannot think at all.
A conference on Ramon Llull and his influence especially on Giordano Bruno.
Le teorie della conoscenza di Niccolò Cusano, Girolamo Fracastoro e Giordano Bruno, sviluppate tra il XV e il XVI secolo, pur nella diversità delle loro prospettive filosofiche, dei momenti e contesti in cui si sviluppano, lasciano... more
Le teorie della conoscenza di Niccolò Cusano, Girolamo Fracastoro e Giordano Bruno, sviluppate tra il XV e il XVI secolo, pur nella diversità delle loro prospettive filosofiche, dei momenti e contesti in cui si sviluppano, lasciano intravedere tratti comuni e punti di convergenza intorno allo statuto e al fine della conoscenza umana. Il volume analizza il pensiero dei tre filosofi, mostrando come in essi siano presenti aspetti di un'originale lettura dei rapporti tra il piano gnoseologico, l'esperienza sensibile e la dimensione corporea; si tratta di temi e problemi che anticipano idee e teorie che saranno centrali per la filosofia moderna. Marco Matteoli è stato ricercatore in Storia della filosofia del Rinascimento e dell'età moderna nella Scuola Normale Superiore e nell'Università degli Studi di Pisa. È autore di Nel tempio di Mnemosine. L'arte della memoria di Giordano Bruno (Pisa 2019) ed è uno dei curatori delle edizioni critiche delle opere mnemotecniche e lulliane di Giordano Bruno (Milano 2004, 2009, 2012). Marco Matteoli Teorie della conoscenza e filosofia nella prima età moderna € 21,00
Il volume presenta 11 saggi su autori classici della tradizione filosofica e teologica che si sono confrontati con il tema della materia sul piano sia metafisico che ontologico