"Giordano Bruno asserted that in the end even the devils would be pardoned and that religious strife, with its human claim to see through God's eyes, was the most misguided strife of all. Despite the optimism of the Roman students who erected his monument in Campo de' Fiori, in many respects the generation he foresaw still belongs to the future. ... Giordano Bruno defies any kind of summary judgment; his life, his ideas, and his personality are as complex as his times are distant from our own. He could be charming or infuriating, charismatic or repellent. For all his faults, however, he was brave and brilliant, and ... he was a splendid writer."
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Ingrid D. Rowland, in Giordano Bruno, Philosopher, Heretic (2009), Prologue: The Hooded Friar
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Giordano Bruno
1548 – 1600
italienischer Philosoph und Dichter
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