Transcript Diapositivo 1 - Carlos Alberto Mota

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Born in 1548 in Rome
His forename
was Filippo,
adopting the
name of
Giordano when
he joined the
Dominican
Order (at the
convent of
Naples in 1566).
There he
studied
Aristotle and St.
Thomas
Aquinas. He
became Doctor
in theology.
Defender of
humanism,
current
philosophy of the
Renaissance
He had doubts
(whose main
about the Dogma
representative
of the Trinity
was Erasmus)
He argued that
the Universe is
infinite
Also advocates
Pantheism *
He wrote
“De l’infinito
universo e
mondi”, in
1584. (“On
Infinite,
Universe
and worlds”)
He
questioned
the
teaching
methods of
his time.
The most
controversial
aspect of the
thought of
Bruno is his
Cosmology,
influenced by
Nicholas of
Cusa and
Copernicus,
stating that
Invited by
the
the
universe is
infinite,
venetian
populated
noble
by
Giovanni
thousands
Mocenigo
of solar
in 1590
systems,
linking
many
other
planets
with
intelligent
life.
was
trapped
and
He advocated
the heliocentric
system
surrendered
to the
Inquisition
in 1592;
But it is likely
that more
important that
this, to the
Inquisition
Was his critical spirit, the refusal of the
acceptance of dogmas and something in its time,
disturbing:
Man was considered as having been created from the image of
God;
Sustaining the possibility of numerous planets with intelligent life
was strange, in that context.
He was sentenced by the Inquisition, and lived his last eight
years under torture.
Nevertheless he did not change his ideas.
He was sentenced to death and executed in 1600, having
been burned.
It is possible that what happened to Bruno contributed to a
more cautious position taken by Galileo.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno
Blackwell, Richard J.; de Lucca, Robert (1998). Cause, Principle and Unity:
And Essays on Magic by Giordano Bruno. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521-59658-0.
Couliana, Ioan P. (1987). Eros and Magic in the Renaissance. University of
Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-12315-4
Gatti, Hilary (2002). Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science. Cornell
University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8785-4.
Giuliano Montaldo, “Giordano Bruno”, film, 1973, 123 mins.