ABSTRACT
Bruno was admitted, as a probationer, to the monastery of St. Domenico by the Prior, Ambrogio Pasqua. 1 The vast building is perched on an eminence, and its silent cloisters and pleasant courts seem to invite to a life of quiet study and reflection. It is full of memories of the great Dominican, Aquinas, the “Angelic Doctor,” who dwelt and taught there. According to monastic usage, Felipe was re-named Giordano. Possibly this name was given to him because of the promise he displayed; for it had been borne by the second general of the order. Hardly any one was called after the baptismal river in the sixteenth century; though in the sixth, when the Jordan figured as a river-god in more than one new baptistery, 2 it was used in christening as a very appropriate appellation. 3
