ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the extradition of Bruno to Rome in early 1593, and his successive detention in the prisons of the Holy Office in Rome. It is a crucial moment, because it requires reading the phase of the restarting of the trial in a contextualized and intertwined fashion: the political, diplomatic, and relational dynamics taking place in Venice and those taking place in Rome must be considered carefully and simultaneously. This chapter intends to show how the sudden emergence (one of the many anomalies of this story) of Celestino da Verona’s testimony from Venice, when Bruno was already in Rome, is the result of broader dynamics. Dynamics that involved the family and relational networks that were behind the careers of members of the Venetian inquisitorial tribunal: both the inquisitor who launched the trial, Gabriele da Saluzzo, and especially the apostolic nuncio to Venice, Ludovico Taverna, as well as Patriarch Lorenzo Priuli, who was made a cardinal shortly afterwards by Pope Clement VIII.
