Caspar Shoppe wrote a scathing eyewitness account of this man’s execution, noting: “thus he miserably burned, and now probably dwells [in] those other Worlds he invented.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man, who was executed in 1600 after returning to Italy from exile to teach Giovanni Mocenigo memory techniques. He argued for a heliocentric universe that was infinite.
ANSWER: Giordano Bruno
[10h] This Cardinal was the lead prosecutor at Bruno’s trial, performing a similar role in the later trial of Galileo. This man wrote numerous papers attacking the oath of allegiance required of English Catholics by James I.
ANSWER: Robert Bellarmine
[10e] Bruno’s teachings also got him excommunicated from a religious group named for this German priest whose 95 Theses kickstarted the Protestant Revolution.
ANSWER: Martin Luther [accept Lutherans; accept the Lutheran Church]
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