Giordano Bruno - in Fiction

In Fiction

Bruno Giordano features as the hero in a series of historical crime novels by S.J. Parris (pseudonym of Stephanie Merritt.)

The Last Confession by Morris West (posthumously published) is a fictional autobiography of Bruno, ostensibly written shortly before his execution.

The computer game In Memoriam features a lead character who claims to be Bruno, returned from the dead to seek vengeance.

Bruno features in the historical segments of John Crowley's mystical Ægypt tetralogy. The story covers his education as a Dominican and his investigation for heresy, and presents multiple versions of his execution on the Campo de' Fiori.

The anime of Those Who Hunt Elves has an episode where Bruno is specifically mentioned by name. "The Earth moves" is a plot point in that episode.

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