GIORDANO BRUNO

Alone against everyone, for years Bruno challenged, astray for Europe, academic and cultural environments but especially the Catholic, Lutheran and Calvinist world. Eventually the adventure of this monk of vast culture ends in Rome, in Campo de’ Fiori (1600) at the end of long trial of almost eight years. Years in which Bruno, with clever tactics, manages to avoid to abjure his openly anti-Christian philosophy. The arrival of the (not yet) Cardinal Bellarmino finally bring Bruno to choose between the gallows and the abjuration of his theories. In fact, the burning on which Bruno loses life is also the spark that will give life to his legend, a legend powered, during the Risorgimento, by the erection of the statue in Rome, commissioned by the laicy and Masonic Lodges in controversy with the Church that had obstructed the Italian unification.

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