WORKS OF BRUNO PUBLISHED AFTER 1592 * 



I. Summa terminorum metaphysicorum ad capessendum Logic ae et 

 Philosophiae studium, ex Jordani Bruni Nolani Entis descensu manusc. 

 excerpt a ; nunc primum luci commit sa; a Raphaele Eglino Iconio, 

 Tigurino : Zurich, 1595. Reprinted in 1609 : Summa Terminorum 

 Metaphysicorum, Jordani Bruni Nolani. Accessit eiusdem Praxis 

 Descensus seu Multiplicatio Entis ex Manuscripto per Raphaelum 

 Eglinum Iconium Tigurinum in Acad. Marpurg. Profess. Theolog. cum 

 supplemento Rodolphi Goclenii Senioris, Marburg, 1 609.2 



Described by the editor, Eglin, who was with Bruno at Zurich, 

 and afterwards became Professor of Theology at Marburg, as Bruno's 

 " Metaphysical remains." It represents the fruit of the lectures 

 given by Bruno at Zurich in I59I, 3 and is one of the earliest philo- 

 sophical dictionaries extant. It is on the model of the Fifth Book 

 of Aristotle's Metaphysics, now known to have been intended by 

 Aristotle as a separate work, but differs in its choice and arrange- 

 ment of the terms of philosophy which are discussed. The first 

 part of the work, which was published by itself in Zurich, may 

 best be described as a handbook to philosophy generally, the main 

 reference being to Aristotle's system, as was natural : with it Bruno 

 writes for the most part in agreement. The second part, however, 

 which was not published until the Marburg Edition (p. 73 ff. of the 

 State Edition), is an " application " of the several terms already 

 defined to the Neoplatonist philosophy : in its first section (De Dec 

 seu Mente] they are applied and illustrated by reference to God as 

 the source of the world, of whom all things are emanations, in a 

 graduated scale of being ; in the second (Intellectus seu Idea) to the 

 world of Ideas God in the world, the soul in all things and in 



1 Works published during Bruno's imprisonment, and posthumously. 

 2 Cf. Op. Lat. vol. i. pt. 4. Also in Gfrbrer. 3 Cf. p. 67, 1. n. 



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