u 4 GIORDANO BRUNO PART 



everything ; and a third section (Amor seu pulchritude] should have 

 followed, dealing with God as the end and goal of things, but is 

 awanting. 1 The document on the Predicates of God which 

 Mocenigo presented to the Court at Venice was probably the 

 second part of the Summa, or perhaps only its first section (Brunn- 

 hofer, p. 1 06). 



2. Artificium perorandi traditum a Jordano Bruno Nolano Italo, 

 communicatum a Johan. Henrico Ahtedio. In gratiam eorum qui elo- 

 quentiae vim et rationem cognoscere cupiunt. Frankfort, 1612. (Also 

 in Gfrorer, and State Edition, vol. ii. pt. 3, No. 3). A summary 

 of, or a commentary on, the spurious Rhetoric of Aristotle (ad 

 Alexandrum), with the addition of a second part by Bruno, on 

 which he himself lays no great stress, on elocution or adornment ; 

 he refers his readers, however, to the orators themselves for com- 

 plete instruction. It contains chiefly lists of heads of arguments 

 and of synonyms for rhetorical use. Apparently the work is printed 

 from notes of Bruno's lectures in Wittenberg (1587), which came 

 into the hands of the editor, Alsted, in 1610. 



3. Lampas Triginta Statuarum. First published in the State 

 Edition, vol. iii. pp. 1-258, from MSS. of the Noroff collection at 

 Moscow. This is in the hand of Besler, Bruno's pupil and copyist, 

 and was done at Padua in the autumn of 1591, although Besler had 

 received the original, which he copied, in April 1590 at Helmstadt. 

 Another MS. is in the Augustan Library, and is both more obviously 

 correct and of earlier date than the copy of Besler (1587); in all 

 probability the work was dictated by Bruno at Wittenberg, and is 

 that referred to as Lampas Cabalistic a in the letter of dedication pre- 

 fixed to the De Specierum Scrutinio (Prague, 1588), and as shortly 

 to be published. 2 



It contains a finished study of philosophy from Bruno's stand- 

 point, arranged under thirty and more headings, " Types," " Statues 

 and Images," " Fields," etc. Under each heading are thirty 

 " articles," " conditions," " descriptions," " contemplations." For 



1 Brunnhofer (p. 81) suggests that the first part contains the exoteric, the second 

 the esoteric teaching of Bruno. But as Tocco (Opere Latlne di G. B., p. 136) 

 rightly points out, some such knowledge of Aristotelian terms as that in Part i. 

 would form a necessary preliminary to the study of philosophy in Bruno's time. He 

 makes use of the Aristotelian terms to express ideas quite different from those of 

 Aristotle. 



2 Op. Lot. ii. 2. 333. 



