Bruno Giordano Filippo

(Bruno)
(January 1548, Nola - 17/02/1600, Rome)
Pursued by the Catholic Church for his views, left Italy and lived in France, England, Germany. Upon his return to Italy (1592) was accused of heresy and free thought and after 8 years in prison burned at the stake. The name B. is the resurgence of occult mystical philosophy in Europe.
In philosophy B. ideas of Neoplatonism (in particular - the submission of a single beginning and soul of the world as the driving principle of the universe) crossed with the strong influence of early Greek philosophy. Registration of pantheistic nature-philosophy B. largely facilitated by the familiarity B. with the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa. B. also admired the views and personality Cecco d'Askoli. Relying on these sources,
B. thought to the philosophy of knowledge "of God in things", ie. totality of all things in unity vseporozhdayuschey nature, provided impersonal divine Absolute. Developing the heliocentric theory of Copernicus, B. expressed ideas about the infinity of nature and of an infinite set, animation and inhabited worlds in the Universe. Introduction of a single infinite substance of which there are many things associated with B. with the idea of domestic relationship and coincidence of opposites. At infinity, identifying and merge the line and circle, center and periphery, form and matter, and etc..
B. - The author of several works in which he developed the idea of magical animism, Kabbalah and hermetism.