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