By him I have been grievously injured, more so than by living man, seeing he has murdered me in my life, my honor and my property, having imprisoned me in his own house and stolen all my writings, books, and other effects.

And this he did because he not only wished that I should teach him everything I know, but also wished to prevent my teaching it to any one but him.

He has continued to threaten me upon the points of life and honor, unless I should teach him everything I knew.'[115] The scene closes over Bruno in the Venetian Inquisition on July 30, 1592.

We do not behold him again till he enters the Minerva at Rome to receive his death-sentence on February 9, 1600.

What happened in the interval is almost a blank.