Heresy
Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies...
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Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic.
In S. J. Parris's gripping novel, Bruno's pursuit of this rare knowledge brings him to London, where he is unexpectedly recruited by Queen Elizabeth I and is sent undercover to Oxford University on the pretext of a royal visitation. Officially Bruno is to take part in a debate on the Copernican theory of the universe; unofficially, he is to find out whatever he can about a Catholic plot to overthrow the queen.
His mission is dramatically thrown off course by a series of grisly murders and a spirited and beautiful young woman. As Bruno begins to discover a pattern in these killings, he realizes that no one at Oxford is who he seems to be. Bruno must attempt to outwit a killer who appears obsessed with the boundary between truth and heresy.
źródło opisu: Publisher: Doubleday Books
źródło okładki: Publisher: Doubleday Books
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780385531283
Publish date: 23 lutego 2010
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Pages no: 435
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Religion,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: Giordano Bruno (#1)
Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600) was an eminent Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological scientist, whose theories extended the then-novel Copernican model. Bruno proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility t...
Elizabethan murder mystery in Oxford featuring Giordano Bruno as an investigator working for Walshingham. Also features Philip Sidney.
As a child growing up, I used to read the encyclopedia at the breakfast table. and read under the covers with a flashlight. If you love books, you know the feeling. So it's easy to like a monk who gets caught reading a banned book in an outhouse at a monastery. Giordano Bruno is caught in an outhous...
2.5I greatly enjoyed first half of the book but in the middle I got bored and lost interest. I'm not sure why as the writing didn't get worse. Could be because I was shipping like mad Thomas/Gabriel despite there were no hints of romance between these two. Or was it because I guessed who is the kill...
Wow, this was really boring. I found myself tuning it out in several places and had to rewind to listen again. I was expecting much more intrigue and mystery. I'm not even sure how the main character figured out the solution. While the historical aspects of the book were mildly interesting, I ju...
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