Early modern · 1548–1600
Who influenced Giordano Bruno?
Influences and legacy
Infinity of worlds, no center, no edge — the Church burned him for it.
Giordano Bruno was influenced by Nicholas of Cusa and Marsilio Ficino, and went on to influence Baruch Spinoza. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Giordano Bruno?
Born Filippo Bruno near Naples, Giordano Bruno was a Dominican friar, philosopher, poet and cosmological theorist whose cosmology built on the then-new Copernican model. He proposed that the stars are distant suns with planets of their own, that those planets might harbour life, and that the universe is infinite and has no centre. He also wrote at length on the art of memory and practised Hermeticism.
The Roman Inquisition tried him for denying core Catholic doctrines, among them the Trinity, the divinity of Christ and transubstantiation, as well as for his pantheism and belief in the transmigration of souls. Found guilty, he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600, and 19th-century commentators hailed him as a martyr for science.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Giordano Bruno?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Nicholas of Cusa 1401–1464
- Marsilio Ficino 1433–1499
Who did Giordano Bruno influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Giordano Bruno.
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
The line of teachers behind Giordano Bruno
The longest documented line of influence ending at Giordano Bruno runs 14 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Giordano Bruno
Indirect influences
- Through Nicholas of Cusa: John Scotus Eriugena, Ramon Llull, Meister Eckhart
- Through Marsilio Ficino: Plato
The second generation
Contemporaries of Giordano Bruno
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Giordano Bruno, with no direct line between them.
- Francis Bacon 1561–1626
- Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592
Giordano Bruno by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 39
- Thinkers downstream
- 110
- Wikipedia languages
- 112 — #12 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Questions about Giordano Bruno
- Who influenced Giordano Bruno?
- Nicholas of Cusa and Marsilio Ficino.
- Who did Giordano Bruno influence?
- Baruch Spinoza.
- When did Giordano Bruno live?
- 1548–1600. The map files Giordano Bruno under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Giordano Bruno card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Giordano Bruno in 112 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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