Giordano Bruno

By GGF

Giordano Bruno is one of the famous personalities of the Italian Renaissance. The unjust and barbarian death he had in 1600 when he was burnt at the stake in Rome, transformed him into a martyr of the science. This four acts play deals with that Renaissance titan’s human and intellectual journey. Thus, the absurdity of those who had sent his body into the flames is outlined and the philosophical subtleties that made him so famous in the late 16th century are highlighted as well. The play is created with much artistic sense using innovative stylistic procedures and also respecting the historical truth. Therefore, the author enlivens a dramatic vision which enriches the panoply of any refined spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Jul 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476242071

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GIORDANO BRUNO

By

GHETAU GH. FLORIN

A HISTORICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS

GIORDANO BRUNO

BY GHETAU GH. FLORIN

I M P R I N T 

PUBLISHED BY GHETAU GH. FLORIN

COPYRIGHTS © 2012 GHETAU GH. FLORIN

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FLORIN GH. GHETAU was born on the 4th of August 1982 in Bacau, Bacau County (Romania). He graduated the University of Craiova, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Geography in 2005. In 2007 he got a master degree in Management of International Relations and he has been a Ph. D in History since 2009, a degree got with the thesis called An Assumed Mission. Alexandru Marghiloman’s Government. Currently, he is a History teacher in Lupeni, Hunedoara County.

He made his debut with a volume of poems and aphorisms entitled Ergonomics of the Drifting Fall.

The Protocol of Sankt-Petersburg (1913) and Romanian-Italian Relationships during the Period of Neutrality (August 1914 – August 1916) saw the light of the press two years later. The Manual of the Perfect Dictator, an exciting radiography of the dictatorial phenomenon appeared in 2010. He published numerous studies and articles on historical themes in several specialized magazines. He has also flirted with drama, being the author of five plays called: The Devil’s Temptation, Giordano Bruno, Leviathan, Tao Ba’s Falling Must Be Hurried and A Tale with and about Wicked People.

His latest book is entitled Jesus vs. Mithras. As the title itself suggests, the Early Christian’s pagan roots are analysed therein.

CHARACTERS:

GIORDANO BRUNO (GIORDANO in the text)

DOGMATICUS

FANATICUS

DOCTRINARIUS

NOBLEMAN MOCENIGO (THE NOBLEMAN in the text)

THE GREAT INQUISITOR

THE TORTURER

POPE CLEMENT VIII (THE POPE in the text)

CARDINAL BELLARMINE (THE CARDINAL in the text)

and

THE AUTHOR

ACT I

THE FLIGHT

On the stage there can be seen the constituent elements of a monastic cell. The walls are white and bare, only a humble wooden crucifix without ornaments which are not distinguished can be seen in the middle. A low and poorly bed equipped with a mattress and a pillow filled with straw and covered by a shabby and rough blanket. A table and a chair which seem to have been made by a person unaccustomed to art of carpentry. There are writing tools, sheets of papers covered with inscriptions and drawings worthy of an old alchemist and a stack of tattered books on the table. There are Giordano and Dogmaticus on the stage. Both wear the regular frock for the Dominican monks. Dogmaticus sits on the bed and Giordano at the table.

DOGMATICUS: (He speaks rarely and with parental care. ) Giordano, I remember as it was yesterday, the moment when your parents brought you to Naples in order you to gain knowledge of the secrets of the Christian teaching. I was looking into the eyes of an ingenuous, good and hungry for knowledge child. You came to our Abbey, San Domenico Maggiore, at the age of your manliness where you were welcomed with delight and hope. The Abbot of that time said you would be a reason of pride for the Dominican Monks’ Order once . (He shakes his grey-haired head reproachfully). If only he could know how wrong he was.

GIORDANO: (He speaks calmly even if a huge concern and sadness can be read on his young face.) If only you knew how wrong you are. When you join a religious order, the sine qua non condition is to accept its precepts entirely and undoubtedly. I have done that unaware of what I agreed with and without knowing these rules cannot be changed or enriched. A brilliant mind is like a bird in a cage for the leaders of the Church.

DOGMATICUS: ( He answers harshly and seems he hardly refrains from let free his wrath which tries him.) How can