Cause Principle Unity

Chronology
his Italian dialogues, La Cena de le Ceneri (The Ash Wednesday
Supper). The debate provoked opposition, but did not damage
his relations with Philip Sidney and the circle of Robert
Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Bruno later defends himself in the
first dialogue of De la Causa, principio e uno [Cause, Principle
and Unity]
1584–5 Published, in London, the Italian dialogues: La Cena de le
Ceneri; De la causa, principio e uno; De l’infinito, universo e
mondi (The Infinite, the Universe, and Worlds); Lo Spaccio de la
bestia trionfante (The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast);
Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo (The Cabala of Pegasus); Eroici
furori (The Heroic Frenzies) – all published by J. Charlewood
with an incorrect place of publication. Expulsion and The
Heroic Frenzies were dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney
1585 Returned to Paris, where he found a changed atmosphere
which was unfavourable to him. Disputed the one hundred
and twenty Articuli de natura et mundo adversus peripateticos
(Articles about nature and the world against the Peripatetics) at
the College of Cambrai; these articles were rewritten and
published at Wittenberg under the title Camoeracensis
Acrotismus (1588)
1586 At Wittenberg, where he gave lectures on the Organon
1587 Published a series of Lullian works
1588 Went to Prague, then to Helmstedt, where he remained until
April 1590, despite disputes with the Lutherans and a new
excommunication. De Rerum Principiis (On the Principles of
Things) was sketched or finished during this period, and the
works on magic, De Magia; Theses de magia, De magia mathematica
(On Magic; Theses on Magic; Mathematical Magic),
were completed, together with De Vinculis in genere (A
General Account of Bonding)
1590 Went to Frankfurt to await publication of the three great
Latin poems, De Minimo; De Monade; De Immenso (On the
Minimal; On Monads; On the Boundless) (Wechel, 1591)
1591 During a second stay at Frankfurt, received an invitation from
the Venetian patrician, Giovanni Mocenigo, to go to Venice
to teach him the secrets of his art of memory. In Venice during
August, perhaps hoping to get the chair of mathematics
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