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This translation attempts to render the "purple prose" of Bruno faithfully, and best captures his discursive modes. In the work of related humanists such as Fludd this approach would work masterfully, one cannot help but admire Gosnell's erudition. However, the aesthetics of certain passages, adorned by high renais. latin is inimitable. The books methods are useless without an intrinsic grasp of Neoplatonism!