ABSTRACT
There were two major philosophers of the Renaissance whose lives and work impinged upon Elizabethan England; one was John Dee; the other was Giordano Bruno. Both were ‘occult’ philosophers, ultimately descending from the Hermetic-Cabalist core of Renaissance Neoplatonism; both were admirers of Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino, the Italian founders of the movement; both were also profoundly affected by the German continuers of the movement, particularly by Henry Cornelius Agrippa.
