« Non stultam concludentes ». Giordano Bruno and the recourrence of David de Dinant between
« De la causa » and « De vinculis in genere » · This research retraces and analyses the use by
Giordano Bruno of his indirect source, David de Dinant, recurrent in the ontological reflection
developed in De la causa, principio et Uno and in De vinculis in genere. By examining the texts of
Bruno’s direct sources, such as Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cues and Marsilio
Ficino, this resear…
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« De la causa » and « De vinculis in genere » · This research retraces and analyses the use by
Giordano Bruno of his indirect source, David de Dinant, recurrent in the ontological reflection
developed in De la causa, principio et Uno and in De vinculis in genere. By examining the texts of
Bruno’s direct sources, such as Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cues and Marsilio
Ficino, this research reconstructs, first of all, the channels through which Bruno reads and transposes
the heretical and censured doctrine of David de Dinant. Secondly, this research examines
Bruno’s reformulation of some of the major questions discussed by his indirect source : 1) the
link or identity and unity of hyle and mens, matter and form, power and act ; 2) the accidental nature
of sensible forms and the eternity or the permanence of an infinite being and substance that
is not subject to change. Finally, the research shows how Bruno’s use of the doctrine of David de
Dinant, and with it of the pre-Socratic, Eleatic and atomistic philosophies, represents an attempt
to think a philosophical and ontological alternative to the Aristotelian theological-metaphysical
scholastic-thomistic structure.