Owing perhaps to some of these works, Bruno was granted an Extraordinary Readership at the university. There were, however, two universities in Paris, and it is uncertain at which Bruno taught: they were the Sorbonne, catholic and conservative, the censorship of which must have passed his Parisian works, and the College of France--following the liberal policy of its founder, Francis II., declaring war against pedantry in general, and the Jesuit Society in particular.[35] As has been said, Bruno was at this time eager to be taken back into the fold of the Church, and turned to the Jesuits for assistance, so that the latter college could hardly have been his habitation; on the other hand, his revolutionary teaching could not fail in the end to excite the indignation of the Sorbonne pupils: Aristotle was, here as elsewhere, "divine." Yet when Bruno returned to Paris in 1585, and when he was on the eve of a second departure, he recalled with pleasure the humanity and kindness shown to him by rectors and professors on his first visit. They had honoured him by "the continued presence of the more learned at his lectures both public and private, so that any title rather than that of stranger was befitting him with this kindly parent of letters."[36] And Nostitz, one of Bruno's pupils, remembered with admiration, thirty-three years later, the skill and versatility of his teacher: "He was able to discourse impromptu on any subject suggested, to speak without preparation extensively and eloquently, and he attracted many pupils and admirers in Paris."[37] But Bruno's evil genius would not allow him rest; whether on account, as he himself says, of "tumults,"--which may mean either the civil war[38] or an active resistance to his own teaching on the part of the youth of Paris,--or because of the attraction of a less bigoted country, he was drawn in 1583 to exchange Paris for London. V [Sidenote: England, 1583.] England under Elizabeth was renowned for its tolerance; all manner of religious refugees found there a place of safety: to Italians its welcome was particularly cordial, their language was the favoured one of the court, and Elizabeth herself eagerly saw and spoke with them in their own tongue. Florio--an Italian in spite of having had London for his birthplace, the friend of Shakespeare, of Spenser and Ben Jonson--was constantly at court; two of Elizabeth's physicians were Italian, as were several of the teachers of the universities. Perhaps the happiest days of Bruno's troubled life were spent here; he had access to the most brilliant literary society of the time; he was able to speak, write, and publish in his own tongue, and in consequence gave all the most polished and brilliant of his works to the world during this period. [Sidenote: Oxford, 1583.] [Sidenote: The University and Aristotle.]