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Michael White.
The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the man Who Dared to Defy the Inquisition.

Published New York: William Morrow, 2002 (copyright page states “first edition”).
ISBN 0060186267;
ISBN-13: 9780060186265.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 149x216x21mm.
Page count: xvii,234pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: discard from a literary agent's library; the dustjacket has some ruffles and creases; the book itself doesn’t look heavily used, agent's rubber stamp on the title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.


This item £7.00
P&P inc.
within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Abacus paperback in print at £10.00]
Weight without packaging: 424g.

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Contents: Prelude to a burning; Religion; Venice; Mysticism; Venetian trial; Wrangles with Rome; Blood on the floor, fire in the soul; Prisons of the Inquisition; The curtain falls; Encore!
Appendices: Bruno's place in history; Brief chronology; Bruno's important works.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 3pp plus 2pp 'Useful websites' [published 2002, so some sites listed in this last section may be defunct]
Index: yes


See also | Giordano Bruno | Heresy | Esoteric studies |

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