Introduction

In the preface to my book Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) is the following remark:

There is a great omission in this book, namely the influence on Bruno of Ramon Lull which i have hardly mentioned, nor have i used his many works on Lullism. A study of Bruno and the Lullian tradition is needed which one day i hope that i may be able to produce. The three strands of the Hermetism, the mnemonics, the Lullism are all interwoven in Bruno’s complex personality, mind and history. All three have a history running from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance up to the dividing line of Descartes and the seventeenth century.