Question about a possible Bruno reference

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Howdy, everyone.

I read an article that insinuates, but does not explicitly state that Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge mentions Giordano Bruno.

The article basically says it has people “like” Bruno.

Anyhow, I was wondering anyone has read it and could say one way or the other if this is the case.

Either explicitly that yes or no it mentions Bruno.

Or yes, it does mention people like Bruno. And if you know what that chapter might be, that would be great to know.

Anyhow, I’ll probably read it anyway if I can get a copy, but given how this reference went out of its way to mention Bruno-esque people, it’s probably a long shot that there’s a memory reference to go along with such an allusion.

Thanks in advance to anyone who has read this and can say a few words about it.

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Isn’t mentioned in the sample, at least.

Still, interesting book. I’ll probably end up reading it in full myself.

It seems to be a series of short stories about Jew of Prague around 1600. Some characters seem pretty smart; I can see them using memory techniques.

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If you get to it before I do and if anything related comes up, please let me know. :pray:

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The word “Bruno” cannot be found in that book :thinking:
Neither “Giordano”, searched just in case.

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His writing style has similarities, but Bruno does not appear explicitly in this text.

There are many characters influenced by Bruno during and after his death.

Bruno uses a mixture of methods and texts so it is not difficult that something is similar to Bruno, since Bruno used all material that he considered that he could use for the improvement of the memory and the psyche, since in those times it was believed of an internal transformation which is not difficult to find in many texts of that time.

Giulio Camillo and the idea of the theater, ramon llull and his arte logico, pietro da ravena, etc. These are some of Bruno’s influences, but it is not difficult to find subjects influenced by Bruno, such as Fludd and Leibniz.

Abstract Passus V of the B-text of Langland’s Piers Plowman and the
representation of Haukyn the Active Man with his sin-soiled coat reveal
the transformative function of the process of memory within literary rep-
resentations of confession, positive and negative types of forgetfulness,
and the reinvention of identity through remembering the past. Langland
presents allegorized personifications of the Deadly Sins who narrate their
misdeeds to Repentance and seek to mitigate the wickedness of their
pasts—or, in some cases, to boast of their sinfulness—through confession.
Depictions of memory in the Sins’ confessions and the subsequent confes-
sion of Haukyn reveal, first, contrasting representations, ideal and flawed,
of the memorial process within confession and, second, how recollection,
or a lack thereof, can lead towards spiritual salvation or corruption.

Keywords Langland · Deadly sins · Haukyn · Repentance · Confession ·
Memory

Book, Chapter 3: Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature (Kisha G. Tracy)

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Thanks. Did you happen to read it to see if there are any characters who might be allusions to him?

@Magno, indeed. As Bruno himself said, anyone who thinks long and hard enough about the techniques will come to the exact same conclusion.

This understanding was perhaps at the core of many themes that show up in his work.

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No, really. I just did a search on it.

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Actually, this book is only cited by an emperor with a good memory who appears in this text. I don’t think you will find what you are looking for in that text.

If you want novels that mention Bruno you can search:

Novels:
Aegypt by john crowley is the most obvious and is based on bruno and his esotericism and philosophy.

S.J. Parris and his series based on Bruno: Heresy, Prophecy, Sacrilege, etc.

Funes the Memorious by Jorge Luis Borges.

Texts that study and explain Bruno’s works:

Nuccio ordine most of his books in Italian, but you can find one or another book in English like “Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass” he also has another one in Spanish that might interest you a lot that is based on Bruno’s literature, philosophy and painting “EL UMBRAL DE LA SOMBRA LITERATURA, FILOSOFÍA Y PINTURA EN GIORDANO BRUNO”.

Fabio Ferrucci in Italian studies and explains the art of Bruno in a clearer way based on de umbris idearum.

Mnemotechnics The Art and Science of Memory Techniques (M A Kohain), this text talks about memory verborum based on bruno’s techniques in de umbris and image composition and other things like creating an index of loose places to jump to using a unique place to hang pictures with frames on the wall, haha, I found this book by mistake.

There are a lot of authors who were inspired, studied and studied Bruno, but it is a long list.

I have many of those books, all books based on philosophy, history, mathematics, geometry, architecture, astrology and astronomy, encyclopedias, symbolism, art, etc… hahaha, they are of my interest, I love how these characters adapted sciences and works to their own methods.

Bruno used a style of writing in vulgar Latin and therefore difficult to understand for many readers today and that is why his mnemotechnical methods are criticized as inefficient or pedantic, but in reality many of the methods used today are based on Bruno’s inspiration.

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