Giordano Bruno: De Umbris Idearum (1582 First Edition)

...has looked upon you as an extraordinary spectacle for the nations, most highly esteemed for the virtue of your outstanding mind, most celebrated for the loftiness of your sublime genius, and therefore most rightly to be honored by the devotion of all most illustrious, magnanimous, and learned men. It is your part to accept this work with a gracious spirit, to protect it with your great favor, and to examine it with your mature judgment; since you appear eminently noble, powerful, and wise.

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