Roma - Campo de' Fiori

The statue in the center of Campo de' Fiori depicts Giordano Bruno.
He was a philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer, who on 17.02.1600, after having been imprisoned in the near Castel Sant' Angelo for for seven years, was burned at the stake where the statue is now.

Today he is regarded as a martyr for science, his case is a landmark of free thought and the emerging sciences.

In the year 2000, 400 years after Giordano Bruno´s execution, Pope John Paul II made a general apology for "the use of violence that some have committed in the service of truth".