L'ecdotica delle opere italiane di Bruno dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi. Il caso emblematico della "Cena de le Ceneri"

This essay discusses some critical analyses of "Ash Wednesday Supper" ("La cena de le Ceneri", London 1584), the first of Giordano Bruno' Italian dialogues. This work is central to 20th-century Bruno criticism. Its particular position in Bruno's philosophical production is confirmed by its intricated origin and redactional history (of some parts two-fold versions survive). Written as an 'occasional' work, "Ash Wednesday Supper" was destined to become the manifesto of the "Nolan philosophy", linking Presocratic thought with contemporary scientific discoveries (in particular Copernicus' heliocentrism), in the context of a new philosophy of nature and an infinitist cosmology.