nunciation. 



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their revenues, because the world was befouled by 

 them they were asses, and the doctrines of the Church 

 asses' beliefs, and so on. The arrest was on the 

 following night (Sunday night), and on the Monday 

 a second denunciation was entered by Mocenigo, than Second De- 

 which there is no more pitiful self-revelation of mean- 

 ness and hypocrisy extant. He confesses or rather 

 boasts that, on locking up Bruno, he had recited the 

 charges he would make against him, " hoping to coerce 

 him into revealing his secrets," i.e. the Secret Arts. 

 Bruno's only reply had been to ask for his liberty, to 

 say that he had not really intended to leave, but was 

 still ready to teach Mocenigo everything he knew, to 

 work for him (" to be my slave," said Mocenigo), 

 without any further recognition, and to give him any- 

 thing that he had in the house ; only he asked to have 

 returned him a copy of a book of conjurations that 

 Mocenigo had found among his written papers and had 

 appropriated. To explain his delay in accusing Bruno, 

 Mocenigo professed not to have been able to get enough 

 against the latter until he had the philosopher in his 

 own house two months earlier (viz. in March), "and 

 then I wished to get the good of him, and by the steps 

 I took I was able to assure myself that he would not 

 leave without telling me of it. All the time I promised 

 myself to bring the matter before the censorship of the 

 Holy Office" These denouncements were confirmed on 

 oath by Mocenigo, whose age is given at thirty-four 

 years, so that the excuse of youth falls from him. The 

 following Tuesday the Holy Tribunal met to consider The ve- 

 the case. It consisted, in Venice, of the Papal Nuncio 

 (Ludovico Taberna), the Patriarch of Venice (Lorenzo 

 Priuli), 1 the Father Inquisitor (John Gabrielli of Saluzzo, 



1 Ambassador in Paris during Bruno's first visit (1582). 



