Giordano Bruno: From Copernican Cosmos to a Martyr's Legacy
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Giordano Bruno was a 16th‑century Italian philosopher and freethinker who challenged religious authorities by defending Copernican heliocentrism and an infinite universe of countless worlds connected by a universal soul, pursued occult knowledge, was executed by the Inquisition in 1600, and later became a defining symbol of freethought whose ideas influenced Spinoza and inspired 19th‑century commemorations in Italy.
