Stephanie Merritt

Too close to the sun

The villain of Alberto Martínez’s Burned Alive is Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who sentenced Bruno and banned Galileo’s heliocentric theories

issue 28 July 2018

  • Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition

    Alberto A. Martínez

    Reaktion Books, pp. 352

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