Toward Ecosophy

I just got my author's copies of the new Azoth Press edition of my translation of Giordano Bruno's De Umbris Idearum -- that's On the Shadows of the Ideas in English. 

Oh my. 

It's a gorgeous piece of work: printed in black and red on archival acid-free paper, with elegant layout, and fully illustrated with Bruno's own diagrams and a set of magical images; attractively and sturdily bound. The magical images, by the way, were selected by me and executed by a gifted artist, Alex McVey; they were chosen to have specific talismanic effects -- bringing happiness, wisdom, and prosperity to anyone who owns the book. (If someone's going to do me the favor of buying one of my books, I'm going to do them a favor where I can..)

The translation -- well, I've tried to make it as clean and readable as possible, scholarly without being academic; there's an extensive introduction, an abundance of footnotes, a final essay explaining how to put Bruno's methods into practice, and a glossary of terms. Bruno's not easy to follow even at the best of times, but I've done my best to help those who want to master the most advanced Art of Memory of the Renaissance era. I hope it finds its appropriate audience.