Giordano Bruno

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Giordano Bruno was a 16th-century Italian philosopher, cosmologist, and Dominican friar known for advocating an infinite universe with innumerable worlds and for being executed for heresy by the Roman Inquisition.

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Giordano Bruno canonical 9

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instanceOf Dominican friar
Italian writer
Renaissance philosopher
cosmologist
human
martyr of free thought
philosopher
birthName Filippo Bruno
causeOfDeath burning at the stake
commemoratedOn February 17
convictedBy Roman Inquisition
convictedOf heresy
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Naples
dateOfBirth 1548
dateOfDeath 1600-02-17
educatedAt San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
surface form: Dominican monastery of San Domenico Maggiore, Naples
era Renaissance
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Bruno
fieldOfWork cosmology
metaphysics
mnemonics
philosophy
theology
givenName Filippo Bruno
surface form: Filippo
hasMonument statue of Giordano Bruno at Campo de' Fiori
influenced Baruch Spinoza
German idealism
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
modern cosmology
influencedBy Aristotle
Copernican system
surface form: Copernican heliocentrism

Corpus Hermeticum
surface form: Hermetic corpus

Nicholas of Cusa
Plato
knownFor advocacy of an infinite universe
being executed for heresy
conflict with the Roman Catholic Church
defense of cosmic pluralism
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
Latin
mannerOfDeath execution
memberOf Order of Preachers
movement Hermeticism
Neoplatonism
Renaissance humanism
name Giordano Bruno self-link
notableIdea cosmic pluralism
infinite universe
innumerable worlds
pantheistic conception of God
rejection of geocentrism
unity of the universe and divinity
notableWork De l'infinito, universo e mondi
De la causa, principio et uno
De magia
La cena de le ceneri
Spaccio de la bestia trionfante
occupation friar
lecturer
philosopher
writer
participantIn Roman Inquisition
surface form: Roman Inquisition trial of Giordano Bruno
philosophicalSchool Hermeticism
surface form: Hermetic philosophy

Renaissance Platonism
surface form: Renaissance Neoplatonism
placeOfBirth Kingdom of Naples
Nola
placeOfDeath Campo de' Fiori
Rome
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
residence Frankfurt am Main
surface form: Frankfurt

Geneva
London, England
surface form: London

Naples
Nola
Paris
Prague
Rome
Wittenberg
sexOrGender male
yearOfTrialConclusion 1600

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Nicolaus Copernicus influenced Giordano Bruno
Clement VIII approvedExecutionOf Giordano Bruno
Lucretius influenced Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno name Giordano Bruno self-link
Campo de' Fiori hasStatueOf Giordano Bruno
Pope Clement VIII condemned Giordano Bruno
De rerum natura influenced Giordano Bruno
Giordano hasNotableBearer Giordano Bruno
Early modern philosophy hasMajorFigure Giordano Bruno