Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair 1st Edition by John Bossy 0300049935 9780300049930

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ISBN 10: 0300049935

ISBN 13: 9780300049930

Author: John Bossy

This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy to frustrate Catholic conspiracy and propaganda aimed at the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth and her government.

The suspects in the case are the inmates of the house, an old building in the warren of streets and gardens between Fleet Street and the Thames. These include the ambassador, a civilized Frenchman, his wife, his daughter, his secretary, his clerk and his priest, the tutor, the chef, the butler, and the concierge. They also include a runaway friar, the Neapolitan philosopher, poet, and comedian Giordano Bruno, who wrote masterpieces of Italian literature, who was later burned in Rome for his anti-papal opinions, and who has been revered in Italy for his honorable and heroic resistance to papal authority. Others in the cast are Queen Elizabeth, her formidable secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, and King Henry III of France; poets, courtiers, and scholars; statesmen, conspirators, go-betweens, and stool-pigeons. When not in London, the action takes place in Paris and Oxford; a good deal of it happens on the river Thames. The hero or villain, who calls himself Fagot, does his work most effectively, is not found out, and disappears.

In the first part of the book these events are narrated. In the second the spy is identified and his story put together. John Bossy’s brilliant research, backed by his forensic and literary skills, solves a centuries-old mystery. His book makes a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England. Not least, it is compelling reading.

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair 1st Table of contents:

PART I A DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

1. SALISBURY COURT

2. ON THE RIVER

3. CONFESSIONS

4. DIALOGUES, AND A SMALL RIOT

5. LAST DAYS IN ARCADIA

6. UNDER THE VOLCANO

PART II VEKITAS FILIA TEMPORIS

1. A COINCIDENCE OF OPPOSITES

2. BRUNO AT LARGE

3. BRUNO RECAPTURED

Epilogue

• FAGOT AT THE STAKE

PART III TEXTS AND NOTES

1. Bruno’s Account of his Life in Paris and London, 1581–1586

2. 18/28—19/29 April 1583: Giordano Bruno to Sir Francis Walsingham

3. 22 April/2 May–25 April/5 May 1583: Giordano Bruno to Sir Francis Walsingham

4. [20/30 May–31 May/10 June 1583]: Giordano Bruno to Sir Francis Walsingham

5. 15/25 November 1583: William Herle to Lord Burghley

6. 16/26 November 1583: William Herle to Lord Burghley

7. [23 November/3 December 1583]: William Herle to Lord Burghley

8. 22 December 1583/1 January 1584: William Herle to Lord Burghley

9. Early or mid-January 1584, OS: Giordano Bruno to Sir Francis Walsingham

10. [Middle to late February 1584, OS]: Notes dictated by William Herle

11. [16/26 March 1584]: Giordano Bruno to Queen Elizabeth
    11a. Enclosure in No. 11

12. Two Passages from the Second Dialogue of La cena de le Ceneri

13. [Latish February 1585, OS]: Giordano Bruno to Sir Edward Stafford

14. [Probably Spring 1585]: Copy presumably sent to Sir Edward Stafford

15. [Beginning of September 1585, OS]: Giordano Bruno to Sir Francis Walsingham

16. [Probably about New Year 1586]: Giordano Bruno to Sir Francis Walsingham

17. [Late October or early November 1586, NS]: Giordano Bruno to Sir Edward Stafford

18. 6/16 November 1586: Sir Edward Stafford to Lord Burghley

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