A thoroughly researched historical novel about Giordano Bruno and the Inquisition, and a technological thriller dealing with the topical issues of digitization, mass control, and espionage.
Amman, Jordan. As an ambitious digitization project gathers pace in a vast building outside Amman, some unpublished writings by Giordano Bruno--flawed genius of the late Renaissance, renegade philosopher, occultist with a prodigious memory--disappear together with the Jesuit priest sent by the Vatican to study them.
When the priest is found dead and a series of mysterious threats ensues, it becomes clear that the stakes are high for all the parties openly or covertly involved. What dangerous ideas were contained in the stolen manuscripts? What was the ultimate secret that Bruno tried to hide from the Holy Inquisition, even as he was persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and finally burnt alive in Rome?
In this riveting, meticulously researched new novel, Alessandro Gallenzi draws on his experience as a publisher in the digital era and casts a light on the darker side of our modern technological world, while revealing how a well-kept secret can change the course of history for ever.
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Partly a thoroughly researched historical novel about the Inquisition and the birth of science, partly a technological thriller dealing with the topical issues of digitization, mass control and espionage. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). . . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Codice articolo V9781846883767
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Partly a thoroughly researched historical novel about the Inquisition and the birth of science, partly a technological thriller dealing with the topical issues of digitization, mass control and espionage. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). . . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9781846883767
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: New. Unpublished writings by the 16th-century philosopher and occultist Giordano Bruno disappear from a digitization project in Jordan and the Jesuit priest who was studying them is found dead, raising fears about the stolen manuscript ? both the immediate threat and the secret Bruno tried to hide. Codice articolo 510433