The Book Prize Index

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

John Bossy

True story set during the years 1583-86, against the background of the tense period between Elizabeth I's Protestant England and Catholic Spain, the chief protagonists being Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno and spy Henry Fagot.

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryTopic Classifier: Intelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance -> Politics & GovernmentAward Category: Global history -> World HistoryIntelligence, Secrecy & SurveillanceEurope & RussiaRegional & Local History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Wolfson History PrizeMajor1992WinnerOfficial source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    • Giordano Bruno93%
    • Henry Fagot90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    55 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 82%.