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171 Gassendi [1.142], 246 (I.iii.3); see also Henry [1.177], 566–8.
172 Patrizi [1.148], 63 v –64 r (Pancosmia I); see also Henry [1.177], 564–5; Brickmann
[1.170], 62.
173 Bruno [1.137], vol. 1.1, 191–398 (De immense et innumerabilibus); Bruno [1.138],
343–537 (De l’infinito, universe e mondi), trans. in Bruno [1.163]; see also Michel
[1.184], chs 6 and 8; Koyré [1.179], 39–55; Kristeller [1.11], ch. 8; Copenhaver
and Schmitt [1.2], ch. 5.2.
174 See, for example, his criticism of Copernicus for being ‘more interested in
mathematics than in nature’: Bruno [1.138], 28 (La cena de le ceneri); Bruno [1.
137], 380–9 (De immenso III.9).
175 Bruno [1.138], 260–1 (De la causa, principio e uno).
176 See Lucretius, De rerum natura II.1048–89, and Nicholas of Cusa [1.145], 57–75
(II.1–4), for discussions of the infinite universe and plurality of worlds. For the
influence of Plotinus on Bruno see Kristeller [1.11], 131, 135; his most
Neoplatonic work, De gli eroici furori (Bruno [1.138], 925–1178, trans. in Bruno
[1.161], transforms Platonic love into a heroic but doomed struggle to comprehend
God’s infinity.
177 Bruno [1.138], 225–53 (De la causa II), trans. in Bruno [1.164], 108–23; see also
Blum [1.169], ch. 3; Deregibus [1.173]; Kristeller [1.183], 4.
178 See the trial document published in Spampanato [1.196], 708.
179 See, for example, Bruno [1.138], 547–831 (Spaccio de la bestia trionfante), trans.
in Bruno [1.162]; see also Badaloni [1.168].
180 For a summary of the charges against Bruno see Dizionario [1.4], vol. 14, 663–4.
181 Ricci [1.191].
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