Our apartment is a few steps off the piazza known as Campo d' Fiori (Field of Flowers). It is the only square in Rome not anchored by a church, of whch there are 400 within the city alone. The statue in the background is of Giordano Bruno, a Dominican monk who was executed by fire in the year 1600 for heresy. He was burned to death here in the Campo d'Fiori, which today more happily hosts one of the city's better markets and lots of bars and restaurants popular with tourists and American students. The statue, incidentally, was placed here about 100 years ago, under vehement opposition by the Vatican, symbolic of the church's declining influence in Roman civil affairs even then.
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