ON THE BOOK OF THE MINIMUM OF EXISTENCE

They conquered the world and remain famous through the ages;
There are those whose glory, in this maturing age, moves
Like a great gathering, appearing as grand as anyone
Holding a scepter equal to or even greater than
The ancients; yet I believe such a mind belongs
To this man, that he would judge it unworthy to assign a limit
110 Or any measure to high virtue. Nay, rather,
He pushes himself into the infinite, and works his way inward
(Rising more and more into the form of the Gods,
And those honors which this fated lot of ours can bear),
He deems that no single life could ever be enough.
Therefore, I bring back things discovered by no small labor,
Which you will find described in the disks of the sun original: "solis disco." Bruno often used circular diagrams—"disks"—to represent his cosmological and geometric theories.; let neither
The mindless trickery of sophists sophists: scholars who use clever but fallacious arguments to prioritize winning a debate over finding the truth, nor the zeal of priests
Find fault; and let no one judge these things less worthy
Of a great prince, once they have been thoroughly examined.
120 For they shall only perish when, on that fated day,
Discord casts the vast elements together
Into a single mass. A reference to the end of a cosmic cycle or the "Great Year," when the universe returns to a state of undifferentiated chaos. But you, O ILLUSTRIOUS DUKE,
Kindle for yourself that light of sublime intellect
Which God has deeply bestowed upon you; enter your own
Temples, by trusting your own eyes: because however small
The things I reveal to you out of the many I possess,
They can be believed most worthy of your distinguished Genius.
Nor let any smatterer sciolus: one who has only a superficial knowledge of a subject from the deluge of Grammarians
(By whom every kind of Wisdom has been overturned) be thought
130 Worthy to approach, however proud he may be of his titles,
Either to teach you or to judge these matters—for he is devoid
Of light. Nor let some fool insult certain things as being
“less Latinly” said, so as to disparage these high matters Bruno is defending his "philosophical Latin," which often ignored the strict, elegant rules of classical humanism in favor of technical precision.