12 GIORDANO BRUNO PART 



Padua. " From Venice/' * Bruno tells us, "I went to Padua, 



where I found some fathers of the order of St. Dominic, 

 whom I knew ; they persuaded me to resume the habit, 

 even though I should not wish to return to the order, 

 as it was more convenient for travel : with this idea I 

 went to Bergamo, and had a robe made of cheap white 

 cloth, placing over it the scapular which I kept when 

 I left Rome." On his way to Bergamo he seems to 



Brescia. have touched at Brescia and Milan, at the former 

 place curing, " with vinegar and poly pod/' a monk 

 who claimed to have the spirit of prophecy. 2 At 



Milan. Milan he first heard of his future patron and friend, 



Bergamo. Sir Philip Sidney. 3 From Bergamo he was making 



chambery. for Lyons, but at Chambery was warned that he would 

 meet with little sympathy there, and turned accordingly 



Geneva, towards Geneva, the home of exiled reformers of all 

 nationalities, but especially of Italians. It is uncertain 

 how the time was distributed among these places, 

 possibly Bruno spent a winter, as Berti suggests, 

 at Chambery, having crossed the Alps the previous 

 autumn ; what is certain is, that he arrived at Geneva 



May 1579. in April or May of 1579. Under the date May 22, 

 of that year, in the book of the Rector of the Academy 

 at Geneva, is inscribed the name Philippus Brunus, 

 in his own hand. On his arrival at the hostelry in 

 Geneva, he was called upon by a distinguished exile 

 and reformer, the Marquis of Vico, a Neapolitan. 

 To the court at Venice, Bruno gave the following 

 account of this visit and of his life in Geneva : " He 

 asked me who I was, and whether I had come to stay 

 there and to profess the religion of the city, to which, 



1 Fra Paolo Sarpi was at this time teaching philosophy in one of the monasteries 

 in Venice, but Bruno does not seem to have met him. 



2 Sig. Sig. (Op. Lot. ii. 2. 191). 



3 Cena, Lag. 143. 40. 



