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Giordano Bruno went to the stake because he had lost his patron, not because his thought had finally grown too radical.

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  1. Ada Palmer

    Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas

    And the reason that trial goes all the way to a capital sentence is that he doesn't have a patron. He's the 99th case that time.

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