Giordano Bruno
1548 – 1600
Italian

Astronomer. His support of Copernican ideas about the solar system, with the sun at its center, led to his execution by the Catholic Inquisition.

Contemporaries
1525–1562Laelius Socinus
1552–1610Matteo Ricci
1499–1565Pius IV
1487–1564Bernardino Ochino
1568–1591Luigi St. Gonzaga
1564–1642Galileo
1575–1617Concino Concini
1577–1599Beatrice Cenci
1500–1571Benvenuto Cellini
1568–1639Tommaso Campanella
1474–1557Sebastian Cabot
1515–1588Blandrata
1598–1680Gian Bernini
1492–1557Pietro Aretino