Matters were getting strained and the authorities, fear- LITTLE 

 ing insurrection, acted upon the advice of the good JOURNEYS 

 Bishop and expelled Bruno from France. 

 He went to "Wittenberg, in his innocence, intending to 

 tack on the church door there his theses. But Witten- 

 berg had no use for Bruno he believed too much, or 

 too little, Luther could not tell which. 

 The University at Zurich now offered to let the exile 

 come there and teach what he wished. Thither he 

 journeyed and there his restless mind seemed for the 

 first time to find a home. His writings were slowly 

 making head, and around him there clustered a goodly 

 group of students who believed in him and loved him. 

 Q In the midst of this oasis in a troubled life, word 

 came from some of the old-time friends he had known 

 in Rome. They were now in Venice, and wished to 

 have him come there and lecture. Bruno thought that 

 his little leaven was leavening the whole lump he 

 was not without ambition he was flattered by the in- 

 vitation & 



He accepted it and went to Venice. 

 It was simply a ruse to get the man within striking 

 distance. Very soon after his arrival in Venice he was 

 arrested by agents of the Inquisition and secretly taken 

 to Rome jt < 



He was lodged in a dungeon of the Castle Saint Angelo. 

 Just what his experience was there we cannot say 

 the horrors of it all are not ours, for no friend of 

 Bruno's was allowed to approach, and what he there 

 wrote was destroyed. We do know, however, that he 



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