This group of people have brown hair color and golden facial features, and their skin is white and their pupils are mostly green or blue-this is obviously a typical feature of the Mediterranean Europa race. However, there are also some people in the crowd who have yellowish skin color and are very close to brown people. These people have soft facial features and their hair color is black or close to black … These people have a special appearance, and their bloodlines seem to be impure … According to Ke Lan’s knowledge, these people are often the products of ethnic integration.
Generally speaking, this kind of mixed-race descendants in ancient times often have a relatively low social status, but here they are not much different from those Europeans. Some mixed-race people wear clothes and jewelry at a higher level than most Europeans.
First of all, we can determine the location in the illusion, a big city in Europe. This big city has advanced social concepts and will not discriminate against some people because of their ancestry and ethnicity … Is it a multi-ethnic mixed city like history?
Kelan turned his attention from their appearance to their clothes. Most of these people are wearing cotton or linen gowns, which are covered with white gowns. The neckline, cuffs and place of the gowns have complicated and gorgeous patterns, while the big gowns are relatively simple, usually diamond-shaped grids or little embroidery. Many people’s waists are also equipped with the same ornate swords.
A few people still wear silk clothing … Many people can only produce this precious fabric in the mysterious country of the East in ancient times, but in fact, as early as the fifth century AD, westerners have mastered sericulture and reeling technology, and silk has gradually spread to the western world.
"Renaissance … Roman … costume?" Koran soon found a matching pattern in her memory.
Am I "crossing" into Renaissance Rome?
Speaking of it, Rome is indeed a place where multi-ethnic cultural origins blend, which completely conforms to Kelan’s first impression of street people.
These people seem to be rushing towards one place, and the crowd jostled with Kelan and walked forward involuntarily. He found that his strength had dissipated. At this time, he was an ordinary young man wearing a plaid robe with a sheathed dagger as long as his forearm.
"Excuse me, where are you going?" Ke Lan patted the shoulder of an old man with gray hair beside him, who turned his head and asked, "What did you say?"
Kelan said it was Chinese, and the other party replied that it was also Chinese, not Roman. The other party should speak Latin, not because they didn’t understand Kelan’s words, but because the surrounding environment was too noisy to hear clearly.
Ke Lan leaned closer to some louder voices and repeated the question, "Excuse me, where are so many people going?"
"You don’t know? ！” The old man’s face became more puzzled and even added a little surprise. "Flower Square!"
Flower Square? Rome Flower Square?
On hearing this place name, a name that is inseparable from this place immediately came to Koran’s mind.
Then the old man said the name that came to Kelan’s mind. "Don’t you know that according to the Vatican notice, today is the day to burn the heretic Bruno!"
Bruno … Giordano Bruno!
The man who firmly believed and vigorously promoted Copernicus "Heliocentrism" was finally sentenced to heresy by the Inquisition and burned Bruno alive at the stake!
Koran suddenly some white what Nieto will immerse yourself in such a dreamland.
"Bruno will be burned to death today … is it because he preaches and the church’s ideas are contrary to’ Heliocentrism’?" Kelan muttered to himself
I don’t know what it took him at the top of his voice to hear the old man even listen to what he said to himself. His face was surprised and turned into panic. "This thing can’t be said casually! We all know that the creation of the earth by an emperor is the center of the universe, and the root of heresy is heresy! "
"’Heliocentrism’ is indeed wrong … but less …" Kelan wanted to say that the theory of less is an improvement compared with "geocentric theory", but on second thought, what’s the point of arguing with people in these dreamlands … and finally chose to remain silent.
This is a repeat of history. Kelan knows that it is meaningless to talk about what he does in this dreamland … He is not a member of this world, but just an "audience" in his place.
Crowds of people soon poured into a square, and a four-meter-high platform was built. A man with shabby clothes and injuries was weakly tied up. A rough log was made into a cylindrical rough hemp rope, and his wrist was so bloody that even the bones were exposed.
"Burn him! Burn him! " A group of people nearest to the stake platform shouted that the waves soon swept the whole flower square, and many people, including the old man around Kelan, shouted-
"Burn him! Burn him! "
A cardinal wearing a robe and a top hat looked at Bruno and said, "If you are willing to admit that’ Heliocentrism’ is wrong and tempted by heretics, we will immediately let you go. You can not die and bathe in the glory of the Lord again."
Bruno didn’t look up. He was too weak. It was nearly half a minute before he gasped and said intermittently, "The sun is the center of the universe … the sun is …"
"heresy! Burn him! " When people near the stake heard Bruno’s words, they suddenly burst into great anger and fear. They waved their arms as if they wanted to rush to the stake, grab the torch from the executioner and light the pile of Bruno’s feet.
"The sun is the center of the universe … this is … the truth!" Bruno seems to have tried his best to shout to the National People’s Congress of Taiwan.
In response to his anger, the people shouted … Kelan noticed that not everyone shouted "Burn him", and a few people remained silent like him, and the crowd silently watched Bruno.
Although "Heliocentrism" is considered a heresy, many people still accept this statement …
But no one wants to come out to Bruno’s side at this time.
Chapter one hundred and eleven "Redemption"
As for the scene when Koran Bruno was about to be burned at the stake, it was not recorded in the historical documents and played in the plot square-
A group of fanatics with crosses around their necks took two people with disheveled hair to the stake.
These two people look like an ordinary vendor at the age of 30, and the identity of another older adult makes Kelan somewhat surprised-through the whispering of people around Kelan, I realized that this balding middle-aged man turned out to be a church school lecturer.
A lecturer in a church school is really a part-time job. A part-time job must be a member of the church, and now the man who is being burned at the stake is still a promising priest.
This is … A traitor in the church?
This seemingly unexpected "farce" seems to have been arranged by the church that the cardinal presided over the execution ceremony nodded kindly to this group of fanatics and then read out the "crimes" of the two men to everyone.
The vendor’s crime was to sell a series of "prohibitions" including "The Theory of the Operation of Celestial Bodies", while the priest was to teach Bruno to spread the "Heliocentrism" theory in the school.
"Burn them! Burn to death! " The people shouted again
"Archbishop! I don’t know … I don’t know what prohibitions this heresy gave me to sell! " The vendor immediately cried out, "I was blinded by some ordinary books … If I had known that they were forbidden, I would have reported them to the church!" "
With a kind smile on his face, the cardinal waved the believers who were holding the vendors back and stroked the vendors’ forehead. "The Lord will give every citizen a chance to turn over a new leaf and do a simple thing."
A Christian put a parcel in front of the vendor, and it contained several fingers, nails and a small hammer.
The cardinal still kept a smile on his face and said, "If you want to nail the heretic’s hands and feet to the fire, you can get rid of your sins."
Taiwan Kelan’s eyes beat involuntarily after hearing this sentence. He will hesitate when he comes to this vendor, but I didn’t expect the other party to pick up the spike and hammer without hesitation and nod at the cardinal with gratitude. "I’ll do it! I will do it! "
He walked to Bruno with a spike and a hammer. Because of the angle problem, Koran couldn’t see the vendor’s expression at this time, and Bruno’s head kept drooping and seemed to turn a deaf ear to what happened at the stake.
The vendor walked behind Bruno and pushed the spike against Bruno’s palm. At that moment, the hammer was about to knock, and he finally stopped for a moment.
But it was only a moment’s pause. The hammer finally fell and hit the tail of the spike.
The spike penetrated Bruno’s palm and was nailed into the stake.
Bruno just had a slight twitch in his shoulder-he was too weak to scream.
It was not until four spikes nailed his hands and feet that the cardinal said to the vendor, "Son, you have redeemed your sins and you can go."
"Praise the Great Lord!" The vendor’s lips trembled and his face was particularly pale-I don’t know if it was because of the bloody act that just gave him too much stimulation or because of the residual tension after he recovered his life. When he tripped over the platform, it turned out that he tripped twice and caused a low burst of laughter in the crowd.
"Bruno, you have one last chance to repent," the cardinal turned to Bruno, who was dying.