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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Giordano Bruno
Born: 1548
Died: February 17, 1600 (aged 52)
Bio: Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer. He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then novel Copernican model.
Known for:
- The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
- The Ash Wednesday supper
- Cause, principle, and unity
- The cabala of Pegasus
- The heroic frenzies
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