Review of Alberto A. Martínez’s Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Publication Title
H-Net Reviews
First page number:
349
Last page number:
349
Abstract
In 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned alive by the Inquisition in Rome as punishment for advocating various heresies that he was reluctant to retract. This execution was the conclusion of a long trial that had begun in Venice in 1592, when Bruno was arrested by the Venetian Inquisition after a nobleman filed a written complaint against him. These charges were so serious, and Bruno’s past as an apostate Dominican friar was so problematic, and his notoriety as a controversial author of many philosophical books was such that the following year the Roman Inquisition succeeded in having him extradited to Rome. The proceedings continued for seven more years, with Bruno being held in prison the whole time.
Disciplines
Philosophy
Language
English
Repository Citation
Finocchiaro, M. A.
(2019).
Review of Alberto A. Martínez’s Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition.
H-Net Reviews
349-349.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/philosophy_fac_articles/41