Giordano Bruno’s Last Night tells us about the man, about doubts and beliefs, about faith and confusion, about the risks that one takes, even today, who, swimming against the tide, decides “to live their own views as resolutely as possible.”

On the 19th February 1600, after eight years of prison and torture, Giordano Bruno is burnt alive at the stake in Campo dei Fiori (Rome). A cross, made by two pointed instruments that go through his tongue and lips, prevents Giordano Bruno from talking to the crowd of people, while he is being taken to the bonfire.

“He who desires to philosophise must, first of all, doubt all things”

Giordano Bruno, accused of being an impenitent, pertinacious and obstinate heretic, became the first martyr of free thought because of the Roman Inquisition. His sin: to ask questions. He was too curious in a time when ignorance reigned and there was no place for such curiosity in the world.

THE TEXT, which makes use of Bruno’s biography and what he wrote, besides the data about the process and the minutes of the prosecution, focuses on the dispute between Giordano and Cardinal Santa Severina, showing a part of the real interviews that they both had and in which Bruno, even knowing the consequences, remains firm in his theories in a desperate attempt to defend free thought. At the same time, he searches for his most beloved memories, which let us know not only about the philosopher, but also about the man. The interesting thought of this character fills the whole work, in opposition to a straight structure of power based on irremovable dogma that strengthened the role of the Church as social dominator. Bruno’s imaginary projects in all the men who recognize and identify with him along the times, in a contemporary, universal and vital way. Giordano Bruno and his philosophy were born in the XVIth century. However, there’s no effort needed to find in his speech a wide range of contemporary elements (political and religious fundamentalism, the right of being different, freedom of speech and thinking, economic interests, etc…) which build the enormous gallery of outrages, conflicts and barbarities that keep our society sick.

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