In this video, I explore the magical dimension of Bruno’s thought—an aspect often overlooked or dismissed in favour of his more fashionable reputation as a forerunner of modern astronomy. But Bruno was no mere proto-scientist. He was a visionary who believed that the universe was infinite, ensouled, and fundamentally magical—a living network of correspondences that could be navigated through imagination, desire, and memory.
Drawing from his key texts—De Magia, De Vinculis in Genere, On the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas—and supported by the work of scholars like Frances Yates, Ioan Couliano, Karen DeLeón-Jones, and Manuel Mertens, I show how Bruno developed a magical system where cosmology, ritual, and philosophy collapse into one another. His art of memory wasn’t just a mental exercise—it was a theurgical practice. His use of images wasn’t ornamental—it was a means of binding the soul to the divine. And his vision of the magician wasn’t that of a trickster or charlatan, but of a philosopher in ecstatic alignment with the cosmos.
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Primary Texts by Giordano Bruno
Bruno, G., & Morehead, W. (1713). Spaccio de la Bestia Trionfante: Or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast. John Humphreys.
Bruno, G. (1991). On the composition of images, signs and ideas (C. Doria, Trans.; D. Higgins, Ed.). Willis, Locker & Owens.
Bruno, G. (2000). Cause, principle and unity: And essays on magic (R. J. Blackwell, R. de Lucca, & A. C. Leone, Trans.). Cambridge University Press.
Bruno, G., Tocco, F., & Vitelli, H. (Eds.). (1962). De vinculis in genere. F. Frommann.
Bruno, G. (2013). On the heroic frenzies: A translation of De gli eroici furori (1585) (S. L. Sears, Trans.). University of Toronto Press.
Secondary Literature and Scholarly Studies
Couliano, I. P. (1987). Eros and magic in the Renaissance. University of Chicago Press.
DeLeón-Jones, K. S. (1997). Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah: Prophets, magicians, and rabbis. Yale University Press.
Greer, J. M., & Warnock, C. (2011). The complete Picatrix: The occult classic of astrological magic (Liber Atratus edition). Adocentyn Press.
Karnowska, M. (2011). Mag znaczy filozof: magia Giordana Bruna w świetle jego traktatu O magii. Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae, 21(2), 181–189.
Mertens, M. (2018). Magic and memory in Giordano Bruno: The art of a heroic spirit. Brill.
Walker, D. P. (2000). Spiritual and demonic magic: From Ficino to Campanella. Pennsylvania State University Press.
Yates, F. A. (1964). Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition. University of Chicago Press.
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