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| | Bruno, Giordano
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(Nola, Naples 1548 – Rome 1600) At the age of eighteen he joined the order of the Dominicans (changing his original name -Filippo il Giordano). There he studied Aristotle, Tommaso d’Acquino and Saint Augustine. Being suspected of heresy, he left the order in 1576 and began his travels. Considered a philosopher and Renaissance “wizard” he wrote books in which he confuted the principles of Aristotle’s physics and the Ptolemaic system, in favor of the Copernican system. He also wrote some Latin poems on cosmology. Being summoned by the noble Venetian Giovanni Mocenigo, Bruno returned to Italy with the hope of obtaining a chair of mnemotechinque at the university of Padua. In 1592 however, Mocenigo, disturbed by the philosopher’s heterodox ideas, denounced Bruno to the Inquisition which tried him for heresy. Bruno was imprisoned for eight years with the accusation of immoral conduct and swearing. Upon his refusal to retract his theories he was burned alive at Campo de Fiori in Rome the 17th February 1600. In the late XIX century a statue was erected on the site of his martyrdom to represent freedom of thought. | | |
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