Giordano Bruno real name Filippo, nickname - Bruno Nolanets; 1548, Nola near Naples - February 17, 1600, Rome) - Italian Dominican monk, philosopher and poet, representative of pantheism. As a Catholic monk, Giordano Bruno developed Neoplatonism in the spirit of revivalist naturalism, tried to give a philosophical interpretation of the teachings of Copernicus in this vein. Bruno expressed a number of guesses that were ahead of the era and substantiated only by subsequent astronomical discoveries: that stars are distant suns, the existence of planets unknown in his time within our solar system, that there are countless bodies in the Universe like our Sun. Bruno was not the first to think about the multiplicity of worlds and the infinity of the Universe: before him, such ideas belonged to ancient atomists, Epicureans, Nikolai Kuzansky.