Note 31 — PORTRAITS (continued 2)

This, the most famous of Bruno’s works, was until recently so rare that only two or three copies of it were known to exist. Hence numerous blunders and misconceptions by critics who wrote about it from hearsay. For a detailed analysis of “The Beast Triumphant” I may refer the reader to The New World for September, 1894. Lucian’s satire, “Zeus in Heroics,” may have given the hint to Bruno.