1. the man who fought
to
death to defend his
ideas
2. Giordano Bruno was born in
Nola, near Naples, in 1548,
from a family of modest
circumstances.
He decided to pursue an
ecclesiastical career and
entrered, as Giordano,
the Dominican order of
preachers.
3. In convent he soon began to manifest the contrast
between his restless personality with viva
intelligence and the desire to know, and the need to
conform to the strict rules of a religious order: after a
serious and deep study of the works of St. Thomas
he did not gave up reading the writings of Erasmus
of Rotterdam, strictly prohibited. He manifested his
ideas without supporting them by scientific
demonstration, as Galileo did a few years after; this
led to the opening of a local process against
him, during which there also emerged allegations of
doubts about the Trinitarian dogma.
4.
5. In those days people had to accept in
full all what was offered as a doctrine
by the Catholic Church and the fact
that someone was criticizing the
Church by introducing new
thoughts, such as a pantheistic view of
God, could be sufficient to be
considered as an heretic and put to
death. In particular Giordano Bruno
was a supporter of those theories
which later turned out to be correct:
the Sun at the center of the solar
system, and the moon rotating around
the Earth, he supposed that the
Earth was no longer at the center of
the universe. He thought that this did
not mean that he didn't believe in God.
6. The thought of Giordano Bruno is certainly very
different from that of Galileo Galilei. The first was
deeply influenced by two Renaissance thinkers, Ficino
and Cusano, with interests ranging from philosophy
(including ethics and criticism of the "revealed"
religions), the art of memory and the natural magic.
That of the second, full of literary and artistic interest
also, is strictly centered in the field of "natural
philosophy", which became what we know today as
"science" and has as its basis on maths. The first
adopts the common belief and the ability of human
reason to move towards an ever fuller
understanding, the second again is the confluence of
the critique of "natural philosophy" of Aristotle, as an
essential prerequisite for the acceptance of the
Copernican view of the world, under a scientific
method of analysis.
7. What for the Church was a sign of defeat becomes
later a starting point for a liberating vision of the
universe. Bruno broadens the vision of an infinite
universe, in which many worlds could be inhabited.
HE DID NOT ABJURE HIS IDEAS EVEN AFTER TORTURE. HE WAS BURNED ON THE STALK.
8.
9. SCUOLA I.T.C. PACINOTTI DI PISA
Lavoro svolto dagli alunni
ARGELATI GIADA, BALDINI GIULIA, BARBUTI
GIADA, BARTOLETTI ELENA, BUCCHERI
ALESSANDRO, MARZULLO JESSICA E MASULLO PAOLO.
