Giordano Bruno

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Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600)

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The night of the Middle Ages lasted for a thousand years. The first star that enriched the horizon of this universal gloom was Giordano Bruno. He was the herald of the dawn. Robert G. Ingersoll

Through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Bruno's ideas were widely imparted, borrowed, sounded ; almost never, though, with the name Giordano Bruno attached to them. Baruch Spinoza

A Correction to the Scientific Iconography of Giordano Bruno", in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), p. 674 and cited by Salvestrini as "the only known portrait of Bruno". Source: Internet

A Correction to the Scientific Iconography of Giordano Bruno", in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 673–78. Source: Internet

Further reading main * Bossy, John (1991) Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair. Source: Internet

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, by Frances Yates. Source: Internet

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