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What did Giordano Bruno criticize about English society in The Ash Wednesday Supper?
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In his 1584 dialogue The Ash Wednesday Supper (Cena de le Ceneri), the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno expressed strong criticism regarding the manners of English society. Additionally, he specifically targeted the pedantry of the doctors at the University of Oxford, with whom he had previously engaged in a contentious debate regarding the Copernican theory and the movement of the Earth.1