Buondì.
In the latest installment of our Summer Series in The Renaissance, a philosopher gets burnt at the stake.
Did he deserve it?
Well obviously not.
Whatever your feelings about philosophers, and other academics come to that, that’s a particularly horrible end!
Not that this particular philosopher seemed to mind.
Get the back story and gory details here.
And you’ll find links to the previous seventeen episodes in this summer’s series here (scroll down past the Romans and the Middle Ages).
A reminder – I’m flying then queueing then driving most of today, so emails won’t be answered as promptly as usual.
I’m publishing this from the departures lounge, after which the computer goes in my trolley and the smartphone into flight mode. I’ll be back online this evening, I hope.
A lunedì!
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Laury Burr says
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. He wasn’t the only philosopher to met a sticky end – Socrates was forced to take poison because he, too, said things that the authorities didn’t like, and I know of a russian philosopher who was condemned to death by Catherine the Great for applying the philosophy that she’d encouraged him to learn but in so doing realised th evils of serfdom. Oops. (She later relented and exiled him instead.) Hmm, I see a possible topic for a talk – to the philosophy group I run! So you see I’m so glad you don’t approve of burning philosophers!
Auguri da Bromley!
Daniel says
Prego, Laury!
I’m sure you talk on this topic will be a hit as there are so many fascinating aspects to explore… for instance, what the most effective way for a ruler to rid themselves of bothersome thinkers might be. Shame I’m a long way from Bromley and won’t be able to make it (even if invited.)
Buon fine settimana!