At any rate, he begged Mocenigo to excuse him from further attendance, since he meant to leave Venice.

This happened on Thursday, May 21.

Next day, Mocenigo sent his bodyservant together with five or six gondoliers into Bruno's apartment, seized him, and had him locked up in a ground-floor room of the palace.

At the same time he laid hands on all Bruno's effects, including the MS.

of one important treatise _On the Seven Liberal Arts_, which was about to be dedicated to Pope Clement VIII.
This, together with other unpublished works, exists probably in the Vatican Archives, having been sent with the papers referring to Bruno's trial from Venice when he was transported to Rome.