The Pope and the Heretic

The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition

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The Pope and the Heretic

The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition

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Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured, and, after eight years, burned at the stake in 1600. The Vatican "regrets" the burning yet refuses to clear him of heresy.But Bruno's philosophy spread: Galileo, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, and Gottfried Leibniz all built upon his ideas; his thought experiments predate the work of such twentieth-century luminaries as Karl Popper; his religious thinking inspired such radicals as Baruch Spinoza; and his work on the art of memory had a profound effect on William Shakespeare.Chronicling a genius whose musings helped bring about the modern world, Michael White pieces together the final years -- the capture, trial, and the threat the Catholic Church felt -- that made Bruno a martyr of free thought.

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Harper Perennial
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English
Pages
234

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The Pope and the Heretic
2007, HarperCollins
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The Pope and the Heretic
March 2, 2006, Abacus
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The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition
October 21, 2003, Harper Perennial
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The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition
October 22, 2002, William Morrow
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The Pope and the Heretic
January 24, 2002, Little, Brown
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First Sentence

"THE GRAND INQUISITOR, the Lord Cardinal Santoro di Santa Severina, was not happy."

Classifications

Library of Congress
B783.Z7 W53 2003

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7285171M
Internet Archive
popeheretictrues0000whit
ISBN 10
0060933887
ISBN 13
9780060933883
LCCN
2001044050
OCLC/WorldCat
53819697
Library Thing
208710
Goodreads
288453

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THE GRAND INQUISITOR, the Lord Cardinal Santoro di Santa Severina, was not happy.
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