Note 149 — PART I LIFE OF BRUNO (continued 2)

Brunnhofer (p. 81) suggests that the first part contains the exoteric, the second the esoteric teaching of Bruno. But as Tocco (Opere Latine di G. B., p. 136) rightly points out, some such knowledge of Aristotelian terms as that in Part i. would form a necessary preliminary to the study of philosophy in Bruno’s time. He makes use of the Aristotelian terms to express ideas quite different from those of Aristotle.