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criticism of the prevailing and contrary doctrines of the 

 time. 



Deimag. In Frankfort appeared also, in 1591, (4) the De 

 Imaginum^ Signorum, et Idearum Compositions : " On 

 the composition or arrangement, of Images, Signs, and 

 Ideas, for all kinds of inventions, dispositions, and 

 memory." It is dedicated to Hainzel, and is the last 

 of the works published by Bruno himself. It sums up 

 all those published earlier on the theory of knowledge 

 and on the art of memory. It assumes an identity 

 between the Mind from which the universe sprang, or 

 which is expressed in the universe, and the mind of each 

 individual by whom it is known or approached. It 

 follows that the ideas in our own minds contain im- 

 plicitly a knowledge of the inmost nature of reality. 

 Here, however, it is chiefly the mnemonic corollaries of 

 this thought that are developed ideas are to be 

 arranged or grouped about certain images or pictures, 

 in such a way that when any one occurs to the mind, it 

 may readily call up those others which are most closely 

 associated with it, i.e. which belong to the same TOTTO? 

 or " place " in the mind. 



XIV 



Venice. During the second part of his stay in Frankfort, 



Bruno received an invitation from a young patrician of 

 Venice, Giovanni Mocenigo, to come to him there and 

 instruct him in the arts for which Bruno was famed. 

 To the surprise of all who knew the circumstances, 



Aug. 1591. Bruno accepted, and re-entered, in August, the Italy 

 which he had left some fourteen years earlier as a 

 refugee. It was through the bookseller Ciotto that 

 the negotiations were carried on. Mocenigo appeared 



