Possibly a German public would have been indifferent to Italian.

Possibly he was emulous of his old masters, Parmenides and Lucretius.
[Footnote 98: It is a curious fact that the single copy of Campanella's poems on which Orelli based his edition of 1834, came from Wolfenbuettel.] [Footnote 99: They were published at Frankfort, and dedicated to the friendly Prince of Wolfenbuettel.] At Helmstaedt he came into collision with Boetius, the rector of the Evangelical church, who issued a sentence of excommunication against him.

Like a new Odysseus, he set forth once again upon his voyage, and in the spring of 1590 anchored in Frankfort on the Main.

A convent (that of the Carmelites) sheltered him in this city, where he lived on terms of intimacy with the printers Wechel and Fischer, and other men of learning.

It would appear from evidence laid before the Venetian Inquisitors that the prior of the monastery judged him to be a man of genius and doctrine, devoid of definite religion, addicted to fantastic studies, and bent on the elaboration of a philosophy that should supersede existing creeds.[100] This was a not inaccurate portrait of Bruno as he then appeared to conservatives of commonplace capacity.