Bruno afterwards confessed that from an early age he had entertained speculative doubts upon the metaphysics of the Trinity, though he was always prepared to accept that dogma in faith as a good Catholic.

The Inquisition took the matter up in earnest, and began to institute proceedings of so grave a nature that the young priest felt himself in danger.

He escaped in his monk's dress, and traveled to Rome, where he obtained admittance for a short while to the convent of the Minerva.
[Footnote 84: The final case drawn up against Bruno as heresiarch makes it appear that his record included even these boyish errors.

See the letter of Gaspar Schopp in Berti.] We know very little what had been his occupations up to this date.

It is only certain that he had already composed a comedy, _Il Candelajo_: which furnishes sufficient proof of his familiarity with mundane manners.