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Giordano Bruno (Volume 2); A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

Giordano Bruno (Volume 2); A Tale of the Sixteenth Century


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. BRUNO IN GERMANY. He that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true. Emerson. Marburg, the place of Bruno's destination, is a place of singular interest, not only from the natural beauty of its scenery, but from its historical associations. It is built chiefly on a hill, crowned by a stately burg or castle, the residence of the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel; and at the base of the hill extends the lovely valley of the Lahn. It is rich in its possession of several ecclesiastical edifices of various degrees of grandeur, the most magnificent of which is the fine Gothic church of St. Elizabeth, begun in. 1235 and completed in 1283; this church was erected in honour of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, wife of a Landgrave of Hesse. The University was founded in 1527, and soon became the most flourishing in Protestant Europe. According to some authorities it was the work of Philip the Magnanimous, a Landgrave of Hesse; in the opinion of others it originated with a French monk, belonging to the Franciscan order, Lambert d'Avignon. It may be that the latter suggested what the Landgrave carried out. And it was in this university that the famous conference of 1529, between Luther and Zwinglius, took place, on the subject of Transubstantiation. So that, for many reasons, Marburg was a place likely to excite more than usual interest in one so impressionable, both to natural beauty and historical associations as was Bruno. The Neapolitan' had been depressed to an extent very rare with him, during the whole of his journey from Paris to Marburg; and this depression was increased by the news that reached him of the death of his beloved friend, Philip Sidney, at the Battle of Zutphen. To Bruno's impressionable nature, it seemed that this depression augured but i...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154291186
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154291189
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr


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