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de Salutiis}? along with three assessors or representatives 

 of the State (Savii air Eresia), one of whom was always 

 present, with the right of suspending the meeting if he 

 thought proper : at the present time the three were 

 Aloysius Fuscari, Sebastian Barbadico, and Tomaso 

 Morosini. On this day the evidence of Ciotto and 

 Bertano, the booksellers who had known Bruno at 

 Frankfort as well as at Venice (Bertano was also at 

 Zurich), was taken ; it was in the main favourable, 

 only Bertano recalled the prior of the Carmelite monas- 

 tery at Frankfort having said of Bruno that he spent 

 most of his time in writing, and went about dreaming 

 dreams and meditating new things, that he had a fine 

 mind and knowledge of letters, and was a universal 

 man, but that he had no religion so far as the prior 

 knew, and he quoted a saying of Bruno's to the effect 

 that the apostles did not know everything, and that he 

 had the mind, if he wished, to make all the world of 

 one religion ; while Ciotto reported the common belief 

 in Frankfort that Bruno was a man of no religion. 

 First ex- The prisoner himself was then brought forward 



amination A r -\- *t i t 



of Bruno. A man or ordinary stature, with chestnut- brown 

 beard, of the age and appearance of forty years " ; 

 Ciotto, too, described him as a slender man of small 

 stature, with a small dark beard, about forty years of 

 age. Bruno of his own accord, before a question was 

 put, professed his readiness to speak the truth ; he had 

 several times had the threat made to him of being 

 brought before the Holy Office (viz. by Mocenigo), 

 but had always treated it as a jest, because he was quite 

 ready to give an account of himself. This he proceeded 

 to do. The biographical part of his account has been 

 , embodied in the preceding pages. 



1 The Nuncio was sometimes represented by his auditor, the Patriarch by his vicar. 





