"There is a real unity underlying each of his works; but all give the impression of disorder... Bruno lost no opportunity of keeping his readers awake by the oddness of his antics; he surprises them by bombardments and unexpected raking fires. He thinks to throw each noble design, each lofty thought into relief by the dodge (not unknown to modern writers) of smart paradox... All is overdone: there is not a thought of repose. Penetrative insight, soaring observation, novel wisdom, severe thought have a setting of jest and jeer, clumsy buffoonery and sheer indecency."
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William Boulting, in Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (1916), as quoted in "Giordano Bruno and Marshall McLuhan" by Bill Kuhns
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Giordano Bruno
1548 – 1600
italienischer Philosoph und Dichter
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