Giordano Bruno
| Giordano Bruno was
an Italian mathematician and occultist of the Dominican Order, trained in the art of memory, idealized in the Science Church as brave defender of heliocentrism and martyr of science during the Renaissance. He was influenced by the cosmology of Medici agent Marsilio Ficino. In 1583 he published Art of Memory and went to England to meet with Philip Sidney and the rosicrucian circle of John Dee. He studied sacred geometry. He was burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome in 1600 (jesuit cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who also played the role of rival of Galileo Galilei). Clemens VIII was married to Ippolito Aldobrandini. |
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After the capture of Rome in 1870, a statue of Bruno was placed at Campo de Fiore, where he was burned.
In 1964 Frances Yates (Warburg Institute) wrote Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.
Although Bruno was a dark occultist, he used in the Science Church as the archetype of a rational atheist (Cosmos A Spacetime Oddyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Giordano Bruno Foundation awarded Richard Dawkins).
He was named Bruno of Nola. Christopher Nolan made Memento.
born 1548.
died 2/17/1600.