Giordano Bruno, shared inheritances. Nola, 17.2.2025(by Pasquale Giustiniani) IntroductionAccording to inheritance law, there is joint inheritance when the deceased is succeeded by several heirs, who become co-owners of the assets and joint holders of the rights and debts that are part of the inheritance. Therefore, if there are several heirs (for example, children and spouse), each of the co-heirs becomes co-owner of a share of the assets and relationships belonging to the deceased.Of what rights and debts has the tradition become co-owner that has investigated Filippo Bruno, in religion Fra’ Giordano? The interest of the Roman Inquisition in Fra’ Giordano Pope Clement VIII (Aldobrandini), manifests his great satisfaction to the Venetian Republic for the granted extradition to Rome, via Porto di Ancona, of the preaching friar Giordano Bruno, a man now known almost throughout Europe for his great intelligence and his doctrine. The Venetian Tribunal of the Inquisition was investigating the Dominican friar not only as an apostate from the religious Order of origin, but also as a formal heretic and as a heresiarch, since he had composed several books dedicated to European heretical princes and had personally visited and lived in several Protestant states. The Venetian Senate's resistance to the Pope was almost useless, objecting that this new practice of sending those already detained in Venice to Rome would be detrimental and a bad example for the Venetian Inquisition, to whose tribunal, as the "natural seat", the pending trials should have been "sent". The interventions of the Apostolic Nuncio finally convinced the Senate to give in, not without the positive opinion of the Prosecutor Federico Contarini, who underlined, in any case, the outstanding intelligence and doctrine of the accused.Two powerful influences were exerted on the Pope in those years by two men whom he elevated to the dignity of cardinal: Giulio Antonio Santoro (or Santori), later Cardinal of Santa Severina, who would later lead the Congregation of the Holy Office for almost twenty years, elected censor for religious matters; Roberto Bellarmino for philosophical matters. And, consequently, more in-depth studies on these two figures would allow for a more considered judgment, especially as, as we have already seen, during the Venetian interrogations Bruno had clearly stated, elegantly distancing himself from the accusation of material and formal heresy: I have read books by Melanthone, Luther, Calvin, and other transmontane heretics, not to learn their doctrine, nor to make use of it, considering them more ignorant than me, but I have read them out of curiosity, and I have never kept these books with me, meaning those that professedly deal with matters contrary to and repugnant to the Catholic faith, that I have also kept with me other books by damned authors, such as Raymond Lullius, and others, who have dealt with philosophical matters. And he responds to the interrogation. I despise the aforementioned heretics, and their doctrines, because they do not deserve the name of theologians, but of pedants, but of Catholic Ecclesiastical Doctors. I hold them in the esteem that I owe, and in particular of St. Thomas, who I have always esteemed as I said above, and loved by me as my soul, and that it is the truth, here is that in my book entitled de Monade, numero, et figura, carte, or 89 pages, I say in praise of St. Thomas, as much as you can see, ostendens in dicto libro infrascripta verba videlicet ille omnis cuiuscumque Theologantium generis el Peripatheticorum in specie philosophantum honor, atque lux Thomas Aquinas omnem. While acknowledging, in short, that he has read books by heretics and condemned people, Fra Giordano claims in Venice that he consulted them out of curiosity, without sharing their theses, which he actually judged to be such that they do not even deserve the name of theological theses, but rather theses of pedantics, while maintaining his esteem for true Catholic authors, first and foremost Thomas Aquinas. Because in Rome, the Pope and the Roman Tribunal have not recalled, particularly in recent years, not only Bruno's prodigious and sincere memory, but also those lines from Spaccio della bestia trionfante in which the Nolan asserted his clear and forthright speaking: ((⏱️=400)) Here Giordano speaks in the vernacular, names freely, gives his name to those who nature gives her being; he does not call shameful what nature makes worthy; he does not cover up what she shows openly; he calls bread, bread; wine, wine; the boss, boss; the foot, foot; and other parts, by their own name; it says eating, eating; sleeping, sleeping; drinking, drinking; and so the other natural acts means by their own titleCertainly, the extradition and subsequent Roman trial must have been influenced by the fact that the Nolan was still considered a professed member and ordained in sacris in the Order of Preachers, whose General was, ...
