For Gatti, a phrase like "the drama of the new philosophy" applies equally well to Bruno's career and to what is here represented as its direct consequence, "the dark but unforgettable flowering of the first great English tragedies," Doctor Faustus and Hamlet.
Read MoreIn a strange figure of chiasmus, the centre becomes a metonymy for the circumference, and the circumference a metonymy for its own centre: the corporeal sphere is turned inside out. [....] The paradox, understood as a topological inversion that makes every possible centre into an unlocatable circumference as well, applies both to nature as a whole and to everything within it, including the reader.
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