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    Giordano Bruno
    Giordano Bruno
    Giordano Bruno
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    Giordano Bruno

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Walter Pater

    Walter Horatio Pater (August 4, 1839 – July 30, 1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity. Donald L. Hill (1914-1997) was was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan.

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      Giordano Bruno - Walter Pater

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Giordano Bruno, by Walter Horatio Pater

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Giordano Bruno

      Author: Walter Horatio Pater

      Posting Date: July 9, 2009 [EBook #4228]

      Release Date: July, 2003

      First Posted: December 8, 2001

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIORDANO BRUNO ***

      Produced by Alfred J. Drake. HTML version by Al Haines.

      GIORDANO BRUNO, PARIS: 1586.+

      WALTER HORATIO PATER

      "Jetzo, da ich ausgewachsen,

      Viel gelesen, viel gereist,

      Schwillt mein Herz, und ganz von Herzen,

      Glaub' ich an den Heilgen Geist."—Heine+

      [234] IT was on the afternoon of the Feast of Pentecost that news of the death of Charles the Ninth went abroad promptly. To his successor the day became a sweet one, to be noted unmistakably by various pious and other observances; and it was on a Whit-Sunday afternoon that curious Parisians had the opportunity of listening to one who, as if with some intentional new version of the sacred event then commemorated, had a great deal to say concerning the Spirit; above all, of the freedom, the independence of its operation. The speaker, though understood to be a brother of the Order of St. Dominic, had not been present at the mass—the usual university mass, De Spiritu Sancto, said to-day according to the natural course of the season in the chapel of the Sorbonne, by the Italian Bishop of Paris. It was the reign of the Italians just then, a doubly refined, somewhat morbid, somewhat ash-coloured, Italy in France, more Italian still. Men of Italian birth, to the great suspicion of simple people, swarmed in Paris, already flightier, less constant, than the girouettes on its steeples, and it was love for Italian fashions that had brought king and courtiers here to-day, with great eclat, as they said, frizzed and starched, in the beautiful, minutely considered dress of the moment, pressing the university into a perhaps not unmerited background; for the promised speaker, about whom tongues had been busy, not only in the Latin quarter, had come from Italy. In an age in which all things about which Parisians much cared must be Italian there might be a hearing for Italian philosophy. Courtiers at least would understand Italian, and this speaker was rumoured to possess in perfection all the curious arts of his native language.

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