From the Italian Renaissance, we know mostly artists and architects. However, during this extraordinary period, philosophers played a  significant role. They were the pillars of a culture that could have brought the West to its zenith. Unfortunately, most of their teachings have been forgotten and have not contributed to the shaping of modern Western society. Giordano Bruno was one of them. Can you imagine that he spoke, in the midst of the Middle Ages, of the possibility of a multiplicity of habitable planets like our earth, and did so at the risk of his life? This is just one example of the breadth of his views that we addressed in this lecture. l2j5t