Filippo Bruno was born into a soldier’s family near Naples in 1548. In 1565, at the age of 17, Filippo Bruno entered a Dominican monastery, where he was given the name Jordanos. While studying science and reading the works of Nicolaus Copernicus, Jordanos Bruno came to the conclusion"</p>\n{\n "home_text": "<p>That the Church’s natural scientific views were incorrect. Jordanos began to publicly participate in debates across Europe, exposing the Church’s ignorance. Upon returning to Italy in 1592 photos

That the Church’s natural scientific views were incorrect. Jordanos began to publicly participate in debates across Europe, exposing the Church’s ignorance. Upon returning to Italy in 1592, Bruno was arrested and imprisoned. The reason for his arrest was not so much the idea of an infinite universe and multiple inhabited worlds as much as the fact that he had mocked the fundamental beliefs of the Church. Eight years of imprisonment did not change Jordanos’s worldview, and torture did not weaken his belief in the correctness of his judgments. Rather than renouncing his beliefs, Jordanos Bruno chose to face death on the pyre. On February 17, 1600, at the judgment of the Inquisition in Rome, on the Campo di Fiore square, Jordanos Bruno was burned at the stake. His last words were: «To burn me is not to prove my error.