Giordano Bruno
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giovanni Bruno
- Other names
- Filippo Bruno
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Nola, Kingdom of Naples
- Date of birth
- 01 January 1548 - 29 February 1548
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 52
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Philosopher
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Dominicans
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 23 May 1592
- End date
- 08 February 1600
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 08 February 1600
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, House of the Cardinal Ludovico Madruzzo
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Aver negato la transustanziazione
- Mettere in dubbio la verginità di Maria
- Aver soggiornato in paesi d’eretici vivendo alla loro guisa
- Aver scritto contro il papa lo Spaccio della Bestia trionfante
- Sostenere l’esistenza di mondi innumerevoli ed eterni
- Asserire la metempsicosi e la possibilità che un’anima sola informi due corpi
- Ritenere la magia buona e lecita
- Identificare lo Spirito Santo con l’anima del mondo
- Affermare che Mosè simulò i suoi miracoli e inventò la Legge
- Dichiarare che la S. Scrittura non è che un sogno
- Ritenere che perfino i demoni si salveranno
- Opinare l’esistenza dei preadamiti
- Asserire che Cristo non è Dio, ma ingannatore e mago, e che a buon diritto fu impiccato
- Asserire che anche i profeti e gli apostoli furono maghi e che quasi tutti vennero a mala fine
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Denying transubstantiation.
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Questioning the virginity of Mary.
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Having resided in heretical countries and lived in their manner.
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Having written Lo Spaccio della Bestia trionfante against the pope.
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Maintaining the existence of innumerable and eternal worlds.
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Asserting metempsychosis and the possibility that a single soul might inform two bodies.
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Holding that magic is good and licit.
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Identifying the Holy Spirit with the soul of the world.
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Declaring that Moses simulated his miracles and invented the Law.
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Stating that Holy Scripture is nothing but a dream.
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Holding that even the demons will be saved.
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Opining the existence of pre-Adamites.
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Asserting that Christ is not God, but a deceiver and a magician, and that He was rightly hanged.
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Asserting that the prophets and apostles too were magicians and that almost all of them came to an evil end
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
- Condemnation and destruction of all his works.
Execution
- Execution date
- 17 February 1600
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- Execution type
- burned alive
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Yes
- Name of the comforters
- Arciconfraternita di San Giovanni Decollato
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
Kaspar Schoppe to Konrad Ritterhausen: Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, cod. Guelf. 273, ff. 159r-164r; Wroclaw, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, cod. R. 243, ff. 255r-257r; cod. Akc. 1949/595, ff. 35r-38r.
Roma, Archivio Storico Capitolino, Archivio Orsini. I., Corrispondenza, b. 380, n. 385.
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
Città del Vaticano, ADDF, Sant’Officio, Decreta, vol. 1600 (minute), cc. 12v-13r; vol. 1599-1600, c. 9r.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale criminale del governatore, registrazione d’atti, reg. 137, c. 134r. ((in Di Sivo, Verdi, 2012, p. 526)
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Roma, Archivio di Stato, San Giovanni Decollato, vol. 15, c. 87r.; reg. 16, busta 8, c. 87r
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Urbinate latino 1068, cc. 98v, 110v, 131v;
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
Roma, Archivio di Stato, Camerale I, 1843, Libro della Depositeria generale di Papa Clemente VIII. 1600, c. 22r.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Ettore Ferrari, Monumento a Giordano Bruno, Bronze statue on a Baveno granite base, 1889; front panel of the Monument to Giordano Bruno: «A Bruno / il secolo da lui divinato / qui / dove il rogo arse».
- Iconography
Ettore Ferrari, Monumento a Giordano Bruno, Bronze statue on a Baveno granite base, 1889, Roma, Campo de’ Fiori.
Drawing in: Rome, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale criminale del governatore, registrazione d’atti, reg. 137, c. 134r (in Di Sivo, Verdi, 2012, p. 525)
- Other
20 january 1600 pope Clemente VIII decree: Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, cod. 3825, cc. 14v-17r.