2000 – 1000 lire silver proof dedicated to Giordano Bruno

Silver: 835/1000

Weight: 14,6 Gr.

Diameter: 31,4 mm.

Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno (Nola, 1548 – Rome, Feb. 17, 1600), was a philosopher, writer and Dominican friar of the sixteenth century whose thought, framed in the Renaissance naturalism, melted the most diverse philosophical traditions – ancient materialism, Averroism, Copernicus, Lullism, Scotism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, mnemonics, and cabalistic Jewish influences – but revolved around a single idea: the infinite, meaning the universe infinite effect of an infinite God, made of infinite worlds, from love infinitely.

The God of Giordano Bruno is on the one hand transcendent, because it exceeds the ineffable nature, but at the same time is immanent, as a soul in the world: in this sense, God and Nature are one reality of love to madness, in a 'panentheistic inseparable unity of mind and matter, where the infinity of God shows the infinity of the universe, and thus the plurality of worlds, the unity of substance, the ethics of the "heroic fury".

To these arguments and his beliefs on Scripture, on the Trinity and Christianity, Giordano Bruno, already excommunicated, he was imprisoned, he judged a heretic and then condemned to the stake by the Catholic Church. He was burnt alive in Piazza Campo de 'Fiori in 1600.

But his philosophy survived his death, brought down the barriers Ptolemaic Universe revealed a multiple and non-centralized and opened the way for the Scientific Revolution: for his thought Bruno was therefore considered a precursor of some ideas of modern cosmology, as the multiverse; to his death, he is considered a martyr of free thought.  Wikipedia