“Fiamme e Ragione” is the re-enactment of Giordano Bruno's condemnation to the stake through a theatrical guided tour in the Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore.
Saturday 17 February 2018 at 19 a special will be held guided tour at Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples to recall one of the most dramatic episodes in history: the condemnation of the philosopher Giordano Bruno in Campo de 'Fiori in Rome.
Flames and Reason, this is the title of the show to which the participants of the theatrical visit can attend, is organized by the cultural association NarteA, written by Febo Quercia and interpreted by Luigi Credendino, Sergio Del Prete, Mario Di Fonzo and Andrea Fiorillo, while the guide Matteo Borriello will lead guests in the rooms of San Domenico Maggiore.
Flames and Reason: the intellectual and human story of Giordano Bruno
The choice of Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore to recall the dramatic story of the philosopher nolano Giordano Bruno is not accidental. It was here, in fact, that he met his first for the first time Magic Naturalis. And it is these environments that spectators will be able to witness his intellectual and human affairs, episode that expresses all the rigidity of the Church still rooted in medieval religiosity and symbolically marking the transition to the Enlightenment.
Giordano Bruno he was invited, the 12 January 1599, ad abjure eight heretical propositions of his doctrines, which included his denial of divine creation, of the immortality of the soul, the conception of the infinity of the universe and the movement of the Earth, also endowed with a soul, and of conceiving the stars as angels.
On 10 September of the same year the philosopher was ready to abjure, but he changed his mind on 16 September and decided definitively to refuse any abjuration on 21 December, after the Court had received an anonymous complaint accusing Giordano Bruno of having had a reputation as an atheist. in England and to have written his Shop the triumphant beast directly against the Pope.
Thus it was that on February 8, 1600, Giordano Bruno he was condemned to the stake, in the presence of the inquisitor cardinals. He refused religious comforts and the crucifix, and so on February 17, "con la lingua in giova", that is, clamped by a vice so that he would not let him speak, he was taken to Piazza Campo de 'Fiori, stripped naked, tied to a stake and burned. I live.
Information on the theatrical guided tour Flames and Reason
When: Saturday 17 February 2018 at 19
Price tickets: 15 €
Where: Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore, Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore, 8A
Info and reservations: 339 7020849 or 333 3152415
Photo Credits: Marco Venezia
