[Footnote 66: Again "Venetia." The Introduction is translated in _A collection of several pieces_, by Mr. John Toland, 2 vols., London, 1726.] [Footnote 67: "_Parigi._" Translated, except for the introductory letter to Sidney, in _Sp. dalla Best. Triom., or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast_, London, 1713; attributed to W. Morehead. The Spaccio was in its outward form, no doubt, suggested by Lucian's _Parliament of the Gods_. Fiorentino has pointed out that Niccolo Franco had made use of a similar idea in a dialogue published in 1539, in which he described a journey to heaven, where he was at first refused admittance; he had a parley with the Gods, until, with the aid of Momus, he obtained permission to enter, conversed with Jupiter, received some favours, and returned. Franco was impaled in 1565 by Pope Pius V., hence perhaps the absence of his name in Bruno. Perhaps the idea of the Spaccio was also determined by a prophecy of the Bohemian Cipriano Leowicz ("On the more signal great conjunctions of the planets," 1564), that about the beginning of April 1584 would occur a reunion of almost all the planets in the sign of Aries, and it should be the last in that sign. It was inferred that the Christian religion would also come to an end then. This would agree with the reason given above for Bruno's preface, viz. that he was leaving England in 1584, Mauvissière's term having expired.] [Footnote 68: Lag. 417.] [Footnote 69: _Ib._ 408.] [Footnote 70: _Parigi_ is on the title page.] [Footnote 71: _Op. Lat._ ii. 3, 237.] [Footnote 72: Also _Parigi_. Translated in "The Heroic Enthusiasts," an Ethical Poem, by L. Williams, London, 1887. (The Argument or Summary, and the Apology of Bruno, are omitted.)] [Footnote 73: Lag. 123. 3. Cf. _Her. Fur._ 747. 19--"le belle et gratiose Ninfe del Padre Tamesi," 749. 40, "Leggiadre Nimphe, ch'a le' herbose Sponde del Tamesi gentil fatte Soggiorno," and 753. 10.] [Footnote 74: Lag. 144. 10.] [Footnote 75: Lag. 406. 17 (_Spaccio_).] [Footnote 76: Lag. 292.] [Footnote 77: 521. 27 ff.] [Footnote 78: 551. 38, 522. 23, 550. 2, 490. 3.] [Footnote 79: _Salisbury Papers_, iii. p. 112.] [Footnote 80: Doc. 9.] [Footnote 81: Doc. 17. Berti, p. 426, 427.] [Footnote 82: Landseck's _Bruno_.] [Footnote 83: _Vide Op. Lat._ vol. iii. Introd. p. xxxix.] [Footnote 84: Centum et Viginti Articuli _De Natura et Mundo_, adv. Peripateticos, Paris, 1586; and "J. B. N. _Camoeracensis Acrotismus_, etc." Wittenberg, 1588. "Camoeracensis" qualifies Bruni,--"of the College of Cambray." Acrotismus is barbarous Latinising of [Greek: Akroasis].] [Footnote 85: _Op. Lat._ i. 1. 63.] [Footnote 86: i. 1. 65.] [Footnote 87: _Ib._ 68, 69.] [Footnote 88: _Figuratio Aristotelici Physici Auditus_, Paris, 1586. _Dialogi Duo de Fabricii Mordentis Salernitani prope divina adinventione ad perfectam cosmimetrae praxim_, Paris, 1586. _Vide_ add. note.] [Footnote 89: Doc. 9.]