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Giordano Bruno (1584-1600) was a member of the Dominican order. The
Dominicans had kept alive the Greek secrets of memory, first perfected
by the poet Simonides of Ceos (c.556-468?B.C.). Before the printing
press, mnemonic methods for remembering verse or other forms of
knowledge were the only ways to pass that information on.
Bruno, after mastering the Dominican secrets, revealed them to the
rest of the world in his classic, Shadow of Ideas (1582). A noted
advocate of free thought, Bruno was accused by the Inquisition in
1592 of various acts of heresy, including making bad jokes about God.
He was convicted and burned at the stake in 1600.