[575] Lag. 66. 7.
[576] Cf. Bartholmèss (vol. i. p. 124), who refers to Cardan and Campanella as offering a similar “proof” of immortality.
[577] De Imm., Op. Lat. i. 1. 205.
[578] De Minimo, bk. i. (i. 3. 143). There also it is said that the transformations are not fortuitous, but depend on the character of the life that has been lived, as Pythagoras and the Platonists taught.
[579] Bruno “inclines” to this view only in one of his latest works, the Lampas (vol. iii. 59), but it is clearly implied in the De Minimo.
[580] De Minimo, ii. ch. 6 (Op. Lat. i. 3. 208 ff.). Cf. i. 2. 80: “The seats of the blessed are the stars; the seat of the gods is the ether or heavens; for the stars I call gods in a secondary sense; the seat of God is the universe, everywhere, the whole immeasurable heaven—empty space, of which he is the fulness.” For Bruno’s Demonology, vide i. 2. 61 (De Immenso, iv. 11), and i. 2. 399 (De Monade).
[581] Lampas, Op. Lat. iii. 48; cf. Her. Fur. Lag. 741. 15.
[582] Her. Fur. Lag. 721. 33.
[583] Lampas, Op. Lat. iii. 21; cf. 23.
[584] Ib. p. 108.