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John Bossy.
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair; third edition.

Published New Have: Yale U.P., 2002 (original edn. was 1991).
Series: Yale Nota Bene.
ISBN 0300094515;
ISBN-13 9780300094510.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK.
Size: 128×194×19mm.
Page count: xix,294pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs & dinks on its cover, noticeable but not severe; pages yellowed with age; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price $20.00£11.99]
Weight without packaging: 260g.

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Assembles evidence to identify Bruno with ‘Fagot’, a spy working within the French embassy in London to subvert Catholic attempts to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her government.

Contents: Salisbury Court; On the river; Confessions; Dialogues, and a small riot; Last days in Arcadia; Under the volcano; Coincidence of opposites; Bruno at large — London — malcontent — Paris; Bruno recaptured; Epilogue — Fagot at the stake.
Appendices: Texts; Note on Castelnau’s house; Not on Giovanni Cavalcanti; Note on Bruno’s handwriting & Fagot’s; Sources for Bruno’s handwriting.

Illustrations: 17, monochrome
Maps & plans:5

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 17pp
Index: yes

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