Giordano Bruno | Notable Biographies

(Unknown - 1600/02/17)

Giordano Bruno
Italian Renaissance poet and philosopher

He was born in Nola, Naples in 1548. Son of a soldier.
Called Filippo, adopted the Giordano's when he entered the order of preachers; where he studied philosophy, Aristotle and theology Thomistic. Great scholar, for those youth years was greatly influenced by Neoplatonism, in vogue at that time, as well as commentators of Averroes, and, in particular, by the belief of the Arabian Sage that religion was a tool of the powerful to control the ignorant mass.
Despite their doubts in relation to the Catholic doctrine, Giordano Bruno was ordered priest in 1572 in Rome. Leave the order in 1576 trying to avoid a trial in which he was accused of doctrinal deviations. He traveled by Genoa, Toulouse, Paris and London.
From 1583 to 1585, writes the dinner from the ashes (1584) and the infinite universe and worlds (1584), as well as the dialogue about the cause, principle, and one (1584) and Gli eroici furori (1585,the heroic fury). In that year, he returned to Paris, and then traveled to Wittenberg, Prague, Helmstedt, Marburg and Frankfurt. He returned to Italy.
In 1592 he was denounced to the Inquisition for heresy. He was imprisoned for more than eight years as prepared a process where he was accused of blasphemy, immoral conduct and heretic. He refused to back down. On February 17, 1600 the Roman Piazza Campo dei Fiori saw how Giordano Bruno, stripped of their clothes, tied to a stick and with language clutched in a wooden press that he could not speak, was burned alive in fulfillment of the sentence issued few days before by the Roman court of the Inquisition.
A statue dedicated to the freedom of thought in the place where the martyrdom took place was erected in the 19th century.