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Giordano Bruno: a life at the altar of the Science

Giordano Bruno: a life at the altar of the Science Asis Kumar Chaudhuri Giordano Brno (1548-1600) Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, scientist and above all a free thinker. He was born in 1548 (the exact date is uncertain) in Nola, a small town in Naples, Italy, then under the rule of Spain. Son of Giovanni Bruno an Italian soldier and Fraulissa Savolino of German descent, Bruno was baptized as Filippo Bruno possibly in deference to the King Philip of Spain. Very little is known about his early life. At the age of 11, Bruno enrolled at a Naples monastery to receive higher education. While at Naples, he was influenced by his teacher to the medieval school of philosophy "Averroism". The philosophy was put forward by the 12th Century Islamic philosopher Averroës (also known as Ibn Rushd), who tried to reconcile Aristotelian ideology with the Islamic faith. The basic tenet of Averroism is that reason and philosophy are superior to faith and knowledge founded on faith. A variant of the philosophy is known as "La

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Giordano Bruno

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

This article is about the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno. For other uses, see Giordano Bruno (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Bruno Giordano.

Giordano Bruno (; Italian:[dʒorˈdaːnoˈbruːno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.^[2] He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended to include the then-novel Copernican model. He practiced Hermeticism and gave a mystical stance 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 could have no center.

Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catho

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Biography

Giordano Bruno's father, Giovanni Bruno, was a professional soldier who married Fraulissa Savolino. They baptised their son Filippo Bruno but later Filippo was called "Il Nolano" after the town of his birth which stands on the northeastern slope of Vesuvius. Only at the age of 17 when he entered the Dominican convent of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, where Thomas Aquinas had taught, did Filippo take the name Giordano.

Bruno left his home town of Nola to travel to nearby Naples when he was 14 years old to study there. He attended lectures on humanities, logic and dialectics in Naples and it was at this time that he was influenced by one of his teachers towards Averroism. This was Christian philosophy based on an interpretation of Aristotle's works through the Muslim philosopher Averroes. Its basic belief was that reason and philosophy are superior to faith and knowledge founded on faith. We shall see as we relate the story of Bruno's life how he continued to be influenced by the ideas of Averroism.

After his studies in Naples, Bruno entered the Dominican conven