Yet he took it under circumstances which would have made a cautious man mistrustful.

Of Mocenigo he knew merely nothing.

But he did know that writs from the Holy Office had been out against himself in Italy for many years, during which he had spent his time in conversing with heretics and printing works of more than questionable orthodoxy.[104] Nothing proves the force of the vagrant's impulse which possessed Bruno, more than his light and ready consent to Giovanni Mocenigo's proposal.
He set off at once from Frankfort, leaving the MS.

of one of his metaphysical poems in Wechel's hands to print, and found himself at the end of 1591 a guest of his unknown patron.

I have already described what Mocenigo hoped to gain from Bruno--the arts of memory and invention, together with glimpses into occult science.[105] We know how little Bruno was able to satisfy an in satiable curiosity in such matters.