Giordano Bruno all’Università di Wittenberg

Giordano Bruno spent almost two years in Wittenberg (from August 1586 to March 1588), where he taught as a private lecturer at the city University. The article offers a critical overview of the research project carried out by Bruno during his stay in Wittenberg, so as to show that, rather than being merely conditioned by the university cultural milieu, most of his choices were essentially dictated by some philosophical issues already outlined during his previous stay in Paris (from October 1585 to May 1586). According to this perspective, by addressing some preliminary problems and interpretative questions, the article casts a new light on Libri Physicorum Aristotelis explanati, Bruno’s Latin commentary on Physics (books I-V), On Generation and Corruption, and Meteorology (book IV).