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Letter: History at stake

Published 17 September 2008

From Richard Harris

The brief contents-page listing for the two books in your Bookends section for 23 August states: “Warming death; on Giordano Bruno”. Taken together, this surely is a rather extreme understatement, given the recent discussion of why Bruno was sent to the stake (26 July, p 21).

Sturminster Newton, Dorset, UK

Issue no. 2674 published 20 September 2008

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