![]() Sidney is about to take a trip to Oxford University to entertain an obnoxious nobleman from Poland and Bruno is invited too. By now, Bruno is a friend of Sir Philip Sidney – nephew of Sir Francis Walshingham, the Queen’s spymaster. The story then flashes forwards to London in 1583. ![]() Luckily for Bruno, his room-mate gives him a dagger and tells him to flee out of the window before it is too late. Barely having time to flush the manuscript, Bruno is placed under suspicion and ordered to wait for the inquisition. A monk called Giordano Bruno is reading a banned manuscript in the monastery’s privy when he is interrupted by the suspicious abbot. ![]() The novel begins with a short scene set in Naples in 1576. ![]() This is the 2011 Harper (UK) paperback edition of “Heresy” that I read. ![]()
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