Love & Sleep, p. 234-250
Bruno and Dicson make a trip to Mortlake, talking along the way. Dicson warns Bruno of the danger of using images in those Puritan times, and Bruno expresses his belief that the magic of the past is coming back. Dicson hopes the power of that magic will heal the split between Catholic and Protestant; but of course, the Science of our time (which Bruno himself is helping to birth) will make both religions irrelevant.
The men leave Dee's abandoned house just ahead of a torch-bearing mob. (In library school I wrote a paper about Dee's collection and how it eventually formed the core of Britain's national library. The ruination hinted at here was a tragedy.) The embassy affair is exposed shortly thereafter, and as foreseen by Bruno the severed hand of the traitor is picked up by Walsingham.
The first paragraph of chapter five is meta again, commenting on how little the author had to make up despite the story being untrue. "This trick could certainly not have been easy, and the achieving of it might have been amusing and a little thrilling, if anybody who was not well versed in the history could have perceived him doing it." You are perceived, sir!
Pierce in Kraft's library spies a copy of the Hypnerotomachia up on a shelf. (From the description it is not the fabulously rare and expensive incunabula edition, but the later French one.) In 2003, walking past a theological bookstore in Amsterdam with baculus we spied Godwin's English translation in the window. Remembering the title from Aegypt, we went inside and bought it (I think we may possibly be the only two people ever to have read the Hypnerotomachia to each other at bedtime; but it is set in Bare Naked Land, after all.) baculus recognized the source of the bizarre illustrations as the sorts of images used in the memory arts of Colonna's order, and wrote his thesis on the topic using parallels from Prudentius' Psychomachia to prove his point.
The men leave Dee's abandoned house just ahead of a torch-bearing mob. (In library school I wrote a paper about Dee's collection and how it eventually formed the core of Britain's national library. The ruination hinted at here was a tragedy.) The embassy affair is exposed shortly thereafter, and as foreseen by Bruno the severed hand of the traitor is picked up by Walsingham.
The first paragraph of chapter five is meta again, commenting on how little the author had to make up despite the story being untrue. "This trick could certainly not have been easy, and the achieving of it might have been amusing and a little thrilling, if anybody who was not well versed in the history could have perceived him doing it." You are perceived, sir!
Pierce in Kraft's library spies a copy of the Hypnerotomachia up on a shelf. (From the description it is not the fabulously rare and expensive incunabula edition, but the later French one.) In 2003, walking past a theological bookstore in Amsterdam with baculus we spied Godwin's English translation in the window. Remembering the title from Aegypt, we went inside and bought it (I think we may possibly be the only two people ever to have read the Hypnerotomachia to each other at bedtime; but it is set in Bare Naked Land, after all.) baculus recognized the source of the bizarre illustrations as the sorts of images used in the memory arts of Colonna's order, and wrote his thesis on the topic using parallels from Prudentius' Psychomachia to prove his point.