Lordanus Brunus Nolanus, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Burnt at the stake for making the mistake
Of telling the truth about the sparkling night
Lights being suns and not just stars

But these are the scars, the fatalities of progress
Dare they suggest that the church was wrong
For their truth telling their pyre was strong

Wood stacked around him and tied to a post
There ignorance lead them torture the host
Denying the reality of our cosmos

There can be only one sun, and son of God
Those observers of science shall burn in flames
Blasphemy the zealots violently shames

Blistering skin, the monsters became
Oppressors breath death burning his his name
Opiate of madness the scientist gets blame

Campo de Flori the execution square
The fervent faithful murdered with glee
Screams of terror in agony

This multiple solar complexity
To the magots, it could not be
For one book is all they see.
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Giordano Bruno, Italian cosmological theorist and philosopher and poet dared to suggest that the other nighttime sky lights were suns just like in our solar system and was burned at the stake by the church for heresy and blasphemy. Lordanus Brunus Nolanus (AKA Filippo Bruno) was his latin birth name.

He lived from 1548 to February 17th 1600 when he was executed in Campo de Flori.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giordano-Bruno