giordano bruno

February 17, 2016
In a strange twist of fate, the painter Giordano Bruno Lattuada died in Monza on 17 February 1978, the same day that his namesake was burned at the stake by the Catholic Inquisition in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.

September 27, 2014
thegetty : Banned Books Week—History Edition Giordano Bruno revealed ancient secrets of improving memory by writing about the method of loci, also known as the memory palace.