Editing Giordano Bruno (section)

===Physical appearance===
The earliest likeness of Bruno is an engraving published in 1715<ref>Edward A. Gosselin, "A Dominican Head in Layman's Garb? A Correction to the Scientific Iconography of Giordano Bruno", in ''The Sixteenth Century Journal'', Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), p. 674</ref> and cited by Salvestrini as "the only known portrait of Bruno". Salvestrini suggests that it is a re-engraving made from a now lost original.<ref name="Salvestrini-1958"/> This engraving has provided the source for later images.

The records of Bruno's imprisonment by the Venetian inquisition in May 1592 describe him as a man "of average height, with a hazel-coloured beard and the appearance of being about forty years of age". Alternately, a passage in a work by [[George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury)|George Abbot]] indicates that Bruno was of diminutive stature: "When that Italian Didapper, who intituled himself Philotheus Iordanus Brunus Nolanus, magis elaboratae Theologiae Doctor, &c. with a name longer than his body...".<ref>Robert McNulty, "Bruno at Oxford", in Renaissance News, 1960 (XIII), pp. 300–305</ref>