Last Philosopher
"I do not have buried me in the Piombi, but a humble seed of philosophy, which will grow in the coming centuries. Weep No seed present: the tree! The day will come, brothers, that the wisdom of ancient civilizations which it renewed in us the tomb of knowledge. "Source: Giordano Bruno has become one of the clearest examples of what constitutes the Renaissance spread philosophical education Europe, which cost him burn to death at the stake and accused of "an unrepentant heretic." Bruno was born in the small city of Nola in Naples in the year 1549, at an early age became interested in Philosophy and Humanities, at age 16 he entered the Dominican Order, through which it has access to books and manuscripts needed to further expand their knowledge. Just a year later and shows obvious contradictions with the Order and receive your first procedure on suspicion of heresy, a process which overcame to and demonstrate its great ability to study and was appointed eight years later (1575) that first inquisition, Doctor in Theology from the Dominican Order of Salerno. A year later in 1576, Bruno again be accused of deviating from the Christian doctrine in their interpretations of religious texts and has to flee to Rome where he received asylum in the convent of Santa Maria Minerva. Habits abandons the city of Geneva and was appointed professor at the University of Paris in 1581, travels to England and avowed follower of Marsilio Ficino and as such, his writings teaches at the University of Oxford between the years 1583 and 1585. Several incidents of Oxford professors forced him to quit his post.
His most important writings are De umbris idearum, 1582, The Ash Wednesday Supper, the infinite universe and the world and the cause, the beginning and the one, the last three written in 1584. In 1585 he wrote The fury heroic where, in a Socratic style, describes the way God Through Wisdom. In 1586 he presented his ideas at the Sorbonne and the College of Cambray and taught philosophy at the University of Wittenberg. That same year he returned to Paris and Marburg challenged the followers of Aristotle to a public debate at the College de Cambrai, where he was not allowed to speak, where he was mocked, physically attacked and expelled from the country. Giordano Bruno professed the same ideas that are at the thoughts of Ficino and Renaissance scholars, there is a common wisdom in each and every one of the existing religions. He said that "Religions are to teach the people", but stresses the sense of religions and different from "Religion" as the hermetic wisdom contained in them all as manifestations of one and the same Truth, openly declares that philosophy is to educate drivers of peoples. "Above all things lies the truth, because she is the drive that resides above all (…) The truth is before all things, is with all things, is after all things. "
