The specifics - Copernicus, the year in which La Purga took place - create an aura of facticity taken seriously by many fans of Brown’s yarns. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on … on retribution.” And they executed them, threw their bodies in the street as a warning to others to stop questioning church ruling on scientific matters.
Specifically, Langdon cites a supposedly historical incident he calls “ La Purga.” In the film version, Langdon upbraids Swiss Guard head Commander Richter for his historical ignorance: “Geez, you guys don’t even read your own history, do you? 1668, the church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross, to purge them of their sins. The Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence them forever.” So the Church began to … hunt them down and kill them.” In another clip Langdon puts it even more succinctly: “The Illuminati were a secret society dedicated to scientific truth. In the 1500s they started meeting in secret because they were concerned about the Church’s inaccurate teachings, and they were dedicated to scientific truth. Here’s how Tom Hanks’s Langdon describes the relevant history in an exchange with Vatican police head Ernesto Olivetti: “The Illuminati … were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. While the new film doesn’t repeat the specific charge of the murder of Copernicus, it maintains the larger historical context set forth in Brown’s Angels & Demons: the Church’s murderous persecution of science, especially in the Illuminati, a secret society that Brown claims counted Copernicus, Galileo and Bernini among its members.
On May 15, the new Ron Howard adaptation of Angels & Demons - reworked as a sequel rather than a prequel to Howard’s 2006 smash The Da Vinci Code - will bring another installment of the Dan Brown version of history to millions of moviegoers.
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