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Giordano Bruno and the Stuart Court Masques*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Hilary Gatti
Hilary Gatti*
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Universita Degli Studi Di Roma (“La Sapienza”)
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It has long been known that Bruno's fourth Italian dialogue, L0 spaccio della bestia trionfante, written and published in London in 1584, was used as a source by Thomas Carew for his masque Coelum Britannicum. This was Carew's only masque; but it was by no means a minor event within the Stuart calendar of court entertainments. However, in spite of general agreement on the quality of Coelum Britannicum as one of the major entertainments of the Stuart court, the use by Carew of Bruno's dialogue has never been extensively or satisfactorily commented on. Both Bruno and Carew scholars have clearly been ill at ease with the relationship and have tended to dismiss it with a few brief and evasive remarks.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , Winter 1995 , pp. 809 - 842
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1995

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I would like to thank Professor J. B. Trapp and Dr. John Kerrigan who read and commented on an early draft of this essay.

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