Yet nothing occurred to irritate him in the shape of persecution or disturbance.

Bruno worked in quiet at Frankfort, pouring forth thousands of metaphysical verses, some at least of which were committed to the press in three volumes published by the Wechels.
[Footnote 100: Britanno's Deposition, Berti's _Vita di G.B._ p.

337.] Between Frankfort and Italy literary communications were kept open through the medium of the great fair, which took place every year at Michaelmas.[101] Books formed one of the principal commodities, and the Italian bibliopoles traveled across the Alps to transact business on these important occasions.

It happened by such means that a work of Bruno's, perhaps the _De Monude_, found its way to Venice.[102] Exposed on the counter of Giambattista Ciotto, then plying the trade of bookseller in that city, this treatise met the eyes of a Venetian gentleman called Giovanni Mocenigo.

He belonged to one of the most illustrious of the still surviving noble families in Venice.