Giordano Bruno Monument

by Thea Recuerdo

Title

Giordano Bruno Monument

Artist

Thea Recuerdo

Medium

Sculpture - Bronze

Description

This monument erected on February 16, 1889 and commissioned by the supporters of a unified Italy : On February 17th 1600 at Rome was burned alive for his beliefs " Giordano Bruno " who it has been said " died for truth without the expectation of reward ". The fate of Bruno a bloody stain on intentional ignorance that can never be washed away. He fled the Dominican monastery without taking the precaution of putting himself out of the order. He enraged schoolmen, and professors of Paris, Oxford, Prague, and took no notice, or care of Monarchical society and took little care of his welfare in that treacherous age.
For Bruno nature was the universe; heart and soul strove in all living things, trees and earth as in the breast of man. The marvel and genius of Bruno was not what he knew, but what he guessed, and believed to be by intuition, and he predicated his beliefs. He guessed at the pull of stars on each other, and that other planets would be found coursing outside the orbit of Saturn. He denied Aristotle's idea of absolute heavy or light bodies. He proclaimed that time, space, and motion were only relative to position.
Two hundred and eight-nine years after his fiery death, the enlightened world met in the flower market of Rome where Bruno was burned, and erected the above monument to him. Perhaps a monument is a fine thing for later generations to admire, ponder or speculate, about the man and events that took place so long ago. But if Bruno could know about it, I do not think he would be especially moved; eight years of imprisonment and repeated tortures could not move him or force him to deny, or recant his beliefs. The truth, he knew, does not or never will change because the majority will not believe it."

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February 15th, 2012

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