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When and where was Giordano Bruno executed?

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Giordano Bruno was executed on February 17, 1600, in Rome, Italy.2

Following a lengthy trial by the Roman Inquisition, he was declared an impenitent and pertinacious heretic for refusing to retract his philosophical theories. He was taken to the Campo de’ Fiori and burned alive.1