Sunday, February 12, 2012

Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600

Giordano Bruno
Full name Giordano Bruno
Born 1548 (date not known)
Nola, Kingdom of Naples, in present-day Italy
Died February 17, 1600 (aged 51–52)
Rome, Papal States, in present-day Italy
Era Renaissance philosophy
Region Europe
Main interests Philosophy, Cosmology, and Mathematics

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  1. on February 17, 1600 in the Campo de' Fiori, a central Roman market square, "his tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words" he was burned at the stake.[18] His ashes were dumped into the Tiber river. All of Bruno's works were placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1603.

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  2. Luigi Firpo lists these charges made against Bruno by the Roman Inquisition:[16]

    holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith and speaking against it and its ministers;
    holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith about the Trinity, divinity of Christ, and Incarnation;
    holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith pertaining to Jesus as Christ;
    holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith regarding the virginity of Mary, mother of Jesus;
    holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith about both Transubstantiation and Mass;
    claiming the existence of a plurality of worlds and their eternity;
    believing in metempsychosis and in the transmigration of the human soul into brutes, and;
    dealing in magics and divination.

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