Such topics were not calculated to endear him to people of importance on the banks of Isis.

That he did not humor their prejudices, appears from a Latin epistle which he sent before him by way of introduction to the Vice Chancellor.[95] It contains these pompous phrases: 'Philotheus Jordanus Brunus Nolanus magis laboratae theologiae doctor, purioris et innocuae sapientiae professor.

In praecipuis Europae academiis notus, probatus et honorifice exceptus philosophus.

Nullibi praeterquam apud barbaros et ignobiles peregrinus.

Dormitantium animarum excubitor.