Giordano Bruno

She visited the Campo dei Fiori, a squalid quarter of the city which had been made holy by the martyrdom of Giordano Bruno (another of her literary subjects). At the date that CEP visited...

He became a friend at Shrewsbury of Fulke Greville and was a contemporary at Oxford of such later luminaries as Richard Hakluyt , Thomas Bodley , and Walter Raleigh . He made other intellectual friends...

CEP wrote during the later nineteenth century on religious and philosophical issues. She authored five books and many periodical essays. She was especially interested in Pantheist philosophers, deliberately seeking out and championing persecuted and obscure...

Plumptre explains her choice of subject matter by admitting that she feels a peculiar sympathy with those humbler seekers after truth—too great to be content with the ephemeral pleasures of the hour, not great enough...

CEP published her historical novel Giordano Bruno : A Tale of the Sixteenth Century in two volumes under her own name.

CP's discussion of Pantheism begins with Hindu and Buddhist texts (The Vedas, Brahminism, The Vedanta Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita), then moves through several Greek schools. In the modern period she...

Her essays discuss philosophers such as Roger Bacon , Charles Bradlaugh , and Giordano Bruno .