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1. Life

Filippo Bruno was born in January or February , son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier of modest circumstances, and Fraulissa Savolina, at Nola, about 13 miles north-east of Naples.

At the unusually late age of seventeen, beguiled perhaps by the prospect of a life dedicated to learning, he entered the Dominican convent of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, assuming the name Giordano.

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In he became a priest and later that year began to study theology formally, obtaining his license as a theologian in July That year he was investigated by his Provincial for his heretical views, concerning among other things, probably the Trinity (Firpo , ), a delicate topic in Reformation Europe.

This was not the first occasion on which he had scandalized his fellow friars and, exasperated with the constraints of the religious life, he fled the convent in early He went first to Rome and then, taking off his habit, proceeded to northern Italy.

He was now a fugitive from his order and e