FOREWORD

Following the death of Professor Francesco Fiorentino, those who continued the reprinting of the Latin Works of Giordano Bruno—Vittorio Imbriani and Carlo Maria Tallarigo—adhered strictly to the standards by which that illustrious philosopher and man of letters had undertaken this newest edition. These standards were extensively detailed in his letter to the Minister Francesco De Sanctis, which served as the preface to the first volume of these works, published between 1879 and 1884 and divided into two parts. In fact, especially regarding punctuation and general spelling, they applied those standards with even greater rigor than their original author, for it was their firm opinion that a reprint—especially of an extremely rare book surviving in only a few copies—should be, as far as possible, a facsimile. Since Imbriani has also passed away, with only the first ten sheets of the present volume having been printed, the undersigned considered it a sacred duty to continue the path traced by his two illustrious friends and masters.

This second volume of Bruno’s Latin Works is, therefore, a faithful copy of the Paris Edition of 1582. This edition was, as everyone knows, overseen by Giordano Bruno himself, who, in a section titled Regarding Errors that disturb the understanding original: "Pro Erratis, quæ intellectum turbant" placed at the end of On the Shadows of Ideas original: "De Umbris Idearum", corrected several errors of