tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147393486014631294.post2695429885042787773..comments2024-03-24T06:37:31.047-07:00Comments on Rome the Second Time: Mixing religion and politics in the lively Campo de' FioriDianne Bennett and William Graebnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00020113718051468497noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7147393486014631294.post-53137441252721523032009-08-09T04:05:58.604-07:002009-08-09T04:05:58.604-07:00While drinking that beer you must gaze on Giordano...While drinking that beer you must gaze on Giordano's statue and as a few questions. One must ask the question, why after so many years of Giordano Bruno's scientific heresies, philosophizing, womanizing, and contempt for the robes he wore as a Dominican priest, did Pope Clement finally have him burned at the stake. What was it that prevented Clement's predecessor, Sixtus V, a pope notorious for his murdering of close to thirty thousand opponents that he had labelled as brigands from doing so much earlier. And why was it only after Bruno spent two years in Prague, as friend and sometimes confidant of the Emperor Rudolf II, (a man also despised by the Church until they removed him a few years after burning Bruno by forcing him to abdicate and naming his brother as Holy Roman Emperor) that the Church finally felt it had to act? Even then, it was only after eight years of imprisonment that they finally were able to sentence him on a new charge of denying the Trinity. What exactly did he confess to that they felt it necessary to extinguish his brilliance? History is not without its sources that escape the book burnings and bannings in spite of the Church being very thorough in its eradication programs. Many of the clues as to what Giordano Bruno did during those two years in Prague that finally sealed his fate can be read in the book Shadows of Trinity released by Eloquent Books. Bruno was a complex and complicated man, who took a path which led him to his own personal salvation. What he learned about the Trinity in Prague sealed his fate. The book is available at the publisher's website http://www.eloquentbooks.com/ShadowsOfTrinity.html or from Amazon Books and Barnes and Noble. A great read that helps you not only understand the man, but the reason the Church feared him most of all and led to his final comment to them when he asked, “I believe you fear me more than I could ever fear this sentence?”<br />So raise a mug of beer and salute the one man that instilled so much fear amongst the Holy See that they were compelled to burn him before he tore their house down.Believerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614309240508695910noreply@blogger.com