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Giordano Bruno

Also known as Filippo Bruno

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)

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Giordano Bruno was an Italian astronomer, philosopher, poet, and writer born in Nola in 1548. He was a member of the Dominican Order and held citizenship in the Kingdom of Naples. His professional life included work in philosophy and cosmology, and he spoke Latin and Italian. He was employed by the University of Helmstedt, University of Wittenberg, University of Oxford, and University of Paris. He also worked in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

Bruno’s lifestyle involved mysticism and Pandeism. He died in Rome on February 17, 1600, by capital punishment through death by burning. He is described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. His name in his native language is Giordano Bruno, Iordanus Brunus Nolanus.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1950
Works: 36

Top works

Malaparte
Rivista Italiana di Studi Napoleonici
Gabriele d'Annunzio. La Vita Come Opera d'Arte
L'architaliano
Fascisti: Gli italiani di Mussolini

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Italy
Active from: 1548
Active to: 1600

film composer

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 72
Total plays: 174

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Reassembling the Social
· 2005 · cited 15,504x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,797x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x
World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated
· 2006 · cited 9,894x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1548–1600
Nationality: IT
Role / Field: Skolotajs, Philosopher, Okultists, Muks, Filozofs, Teologija
Language: ita, lat
Gender: Male

Recorded by 41 libraries

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Quotes

“Chi vuole che la quaresima gli paia corta, si faccia debito per pagare a Pasqua.”
“Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.”
“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.”
“Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”
“A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.”
“Given that annihilation of nature in its entirety is impossible, and that death and dissolution are not appropriate to the whole mass of this entire globe or star, from time to time, according to an established order, it is renewed, altered, changed, and transformed in all its parts.”

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Works in European collections

9 objects attributed to Giordano Bruno, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Giordano Bruno (/dʒɔːrˈdɑːnoʊ ˈbruːnoʊ/ jor-DAH-noh BROO-noh; Italian: [dʒorˈdaːno ˈbruːno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno; February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was a Neopolitan philosopher, Dominican friar and priest, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended to include the then-novel Copernican model. He practised Hermeticism and took a mystical approach to exploring the universe. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets (exoplanets), and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and can have no centre.

Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation. Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, nor was his teaching of metempsychosis regarding the reincarnation of the soul. The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600. After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science. Some historians are of the opinion that his heresy trial was not a response to his cosmological views but rather a response to his views on religion and the afterlife, while others largely reject this view. Bruno's case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences.

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