[120] Docs. 26, 27.
[121] Roman Documents, III.
[122] It must not be left out of mind that documents have occasionally been tampered with, and statements put into the mouths of witnesses which are in substance false, as Fiorentino hints concerning these reports of Bruno’s trial. But there is no special reason for doubt here.
[123] It is officially stated that there are no further documents.
[124] Wagner’s introduction to Bruno’s Opere Italiane, p. 7.
[125] Conferenza, p. 86.
[126] For the part of this letter relative to Bruno, v. Bartholmèss (with French translation), Berti and Frith.
[127] The letter was translated into English by La Roche, Memoirs of Literature, vol. ii., and by Toland, Misc. Works, vol. i. Schopp refers to Bruno’s death in a work published in 1611 (i.e. several years before the letter itself was published) as having occurred ten years earlier (Berti, p. 10).
[128] Berti, p. 326, n. 1.
[129] Pognisi, Giordano Bruno e l’ Archivio di San Giovanni Decollato, Torino, 1891, and vol. iii. of Op. Lat. introd.