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The Academy of Secrets
by S. J. Parris
Book 2 in the Giordano Bruno Novels series.
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Naples, 1568. The young Dominican Giordano Bruno is invited into the private academy of Giambattista della Porta, where scholars test new ideas in natural philosophy, memory and the hidden properties of the world. The gatherings offer Bruno a freedom of inquiry that his religious order cannot provide.
When danger closes around the academy and its members, Bruno discovers that intellectual experimentation can be treated as conspiracy or heresy. His attachment to della Porta’s circle also deepens his conflict between monastic obedience and the independent life of the mind that he increasingly desires.
