The Trial of Giordano Bruno

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction\nPART 1 “Because When It Was Time He Wanted to be a Captain”\n	1 “My Profession Has Been and Is Letters and All Science.” Profile of a Defendant\n		A Restless Novice\n		In Trouble in Geneva\n		Towards the East\n		Return to Italy: A Grand Project\n	2 The Circle Closes\n		A Man in Danger\n		Stories of Conclaves\n	3 Return to the Past\n		Who Is a Christian?\n		The Church’s Judiciary\n		“Agents of a Power That Intends to Dominate the World”\n	4 The Machine of the Inquisition\n		The Eradication of Heresy\n		The Law and Discretion\nPART 2 “Many Times Have I Been Threatened That I Would be Made to Come to This Holy Office”\n	5 The End in the Beginning\n		An Illegitimate Arrest?\n		A Flood of Accusations\n		The Many Reasons for a “causa ardua”\n	6 The Stalemate\n		The Parade of Witnesses\n		The Accused Takes the Floor\n		The Investigation Languishes\n	7 In the Prisons of the Inquisition\n		The Secrets of the Capuchins\n		Magic in the Monastery\n		“Listen to the Blasphemy This Man Speaks!”\n		A Protected Enclosure\n		Spies, Spies, and More Spies\n		Geography of a Venetian Trial\n	8 Before the Throne of Peter\n		A Question of Opportunity\n		Celestino’s Denunciation\n		One Eye on Rome, One on Venice\n		Families, Kinship, and Careers: What Revolved Around Bruno?\nPART 3 “A Willing Martyr”\n	9 The Choice\n		Bellarmino the Jesuit\n		The Way to Salvation\n		The Procedural Scheme\n	10 The Mysteries of the Capuchin\n		Outside the Protected Enclosure\n		Celestino as Bruno?\n	11 The Summer of 1599\n		Movements behind the Scenes\n		Becoming a Bishop\n		Life in Prison\n	12 “Perhaps It Is with Greater Fear That You Pronounce the Sentence against Me…”\n		Follow the Money!\n		The Capuchin’s Shoes\n		Giordano and Celestino\n		Squaring the Circle\n		Substitutions\nEpilogue. On the Ground of Truth\nIndex