Alberto Martinez — Burned Alive

 

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Some archival materials related to this topic include:

On the infinite universe and worlds, by Giordano Bruno, Wellcome Collection

Correspondence relating to Dorothea Waley Singer's research for Giordano Bruno, his Life and Thought, Wellcome Collection

Geschichte des lebens & der schriften des Galileo Galilei, von Christian Joseph Jagemann [1787], Caltech

Diologo di Galileo Galilei Linceo matematico sopraordinario dello studio di Pisa, Galileo Galilei, New York Academy of Medicine 

Giordano Bruno: philosopher and martyr: two addresses, by Daniel Garrison Brinton and and Thomas Davidson, Yale University 

See also recent work by our fellows:

Tricia Ross, Care of Body, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany

Nabeel Hamid, Being and the Good: Natural Teleology in Early Modern German Philosophy

Andrew Berns, The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy