They do not deserve the name of theologians, but of pedants.' That this reply was sincere, is abundantly proved by passages in the least orthodox of Bruno's writings.

It was the weakness of a philosopher's position at that moment that he derived no support from either of the camps into which Christendom was then divided.

Catholics and Protestants of every shade regarded him with mistrust.
A change in the religious policy of Saxony, introduced after the death of the Elector Augustus, caused Bruno to leave Wittenberg for Prague in 1588.

From Prague he passed to Helmstaedt, where the Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel received him with distinction, and bestowed on him a purse of eighty dollars.[98] Here he conceived two of his most important works, the _De Monade_ and _De Triplici Minimo_, both written in Latin hexameters.[99] Why he adopted this new form of exposition is not manifest.

Possibly he was tired of dialogues, through which he had expressed his thought so freely in England.