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  2. Giordano Bruno - Wikipedia

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    Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, [3] nor was his teaching of metempsychosis regarding the reincarnation of the soul. The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600. After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century ...

  3. Monument to Giordano Bruno - Wikipedia

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    The statue was unveiled on 9 June 1889, at the site where Bruno was burnt at the stake for heresy on 17 February 1600, and the radical politician Giovanni Bovio gave a speech surrounded by about 100 Masonic flags.

  4. List of people burned as heretics - Wikipedia

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    Orléans heresy (1022) (burnt) Burning of the Templars, 1314 Burning of William Sawtre, 1401 John Badby burned in a barrel, 1410 Burning of Jan Hus in Constance, 1415 Joan of Arc at the stake, 1431 Rogers' execution at Smithfield, 1555 Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555 Burning of Thomas Hawkes, 1555. Ramihrdus of Cambrai [4] [5] (1076 ...

  5. Persecution of philosophers - Wikipedia

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    Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, [3] nor was his teaching of the transmigration of the soul and reincarnation. The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600. After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century ...

  6. File:Monument to Giordano Bruno in Campo de' Fiori square ...

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    Giordano Bruno was a Dominican friar who was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake in this place. He had rejected key Catholic doctrines, believed in a heliocentric solar system and correctly proposed that the Sun was a star moving through space.

  7. Pope Clement VIII - Wikipedia

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    In 1599 he had the Italian miller Menocchio – who had formed the belief that God was not eternal but had Himself once been created out of chaos – tried by the Inquisition and burnt at the stake. A more famous case was the trial for heresy of Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake in 1600.

  8. List of people executed by the Tudors - Wikipedia

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    Burned at the stake for heresy for role in drafting the Matthew Bible. John Hooper: 9 February 1555 Anglican Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester. Burnt at the stake in Gloucester during the Marian Persecutions. Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London: 16 October 1555 Anglican Bishop of London. One of the Oxford Martyrs burnt at the stake. Hugh Latimer

  9. Death by burning - Wikipedia

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    Death by burning for heresy was formally abolished by Parliament during the reign of King Charles II in 1676. [81] The traditional punishment for women found guilty of treason was to be burned at the stake, where they did not need to be publicly displayed naked, whereas men were hanged, drawn and quartered.