Here friends persuaded him to reassume the cowl.

There were more than 40,000 monks abroad in Italy, beyond the limits of their convent.

Why should not he avail himself of house-roof in his travels, a privilege which was always open to friars?
From Padua he journeyed rapidly again through Brescia, Bergamo and Milan to Turin, crossed Mont Cenis, tarried at Chambery, and finally betook himself to Geneva.
Geneva was no fit resting-place for Bruno.

He felt an even fiercer antipathy for dissenting than for orthodox bigotry.

The despotism of a belligerent and persecuting sectarian seemed to him more intolerable, because less excusable, than the Catholic despotism from which he was escaping.