It is possible that the Vatican even now contains the first sketch for such a studied exposition in the treatise on the Seven Arts, which Giovanni Mocenigo handed over to the Inquisition, and which the philosopher intended to dedicate to Clement VIII.

But the loss of this elaborated system is hardly to be regretted, except for the clearer light it must have thrown upon the workings of the most illuminated intellect in the sixteenth century.

We know that it could not have revealed to us the secret of things.
Bruno cast his thoughts in two molds: the dialogue, and Latin hexameters.

He was attracted to the latter by his early study of Parmenides and Lucretius.

The former seems to have been natural to the man.