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Bruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno

In 1584 Bruno published De la causa, principio et uno in the same London Italian cluster, a dialogue arguing a single infinite principle and a living universe — metaphysics in the vernacular. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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In 1584 Bruno published De la causa, principio et uno in the same London Italian cluster, a dialogue arguing a single infinite principle and a living universe — metaphysics in the vernacular. He wrote; London manufacture followed. The row stores a knowledge-record. Trinity and transubstantiation quarrels that later inquisitors heard in such pages are trial weather, not this colophon’s only meaning.

Context

A book about one cause can be read as philosophy and as theology. The 1599–1600 propositions are a legal instrument done to him later. Cusanus is an influence neighbour, not a co-printer. Vernacular metaphysics is data because strangers can copy the argument without a Latin faculty licence. Spinoza is not 1584. 1600 is not this colophon.

Why it matters

High confidence on 1584. Modest weight. Trial charges remain complex and later. Cena remains a different title.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Giordano Bruno

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He wrote the 1584 Italian dialogue on cause, principle, and unity. London print issued it. Complex metaphysician, not a later pantheist party.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactBruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno
    2. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 January 1584 · verified

    A printed metaphysics of one infinite substance made a public knowledge-object, a modest data path, not a 1600 charge-sheet by itself.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Project Gutenberg — Giordano BrunoProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Cambridge Companion to Giordano BrunoCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Project Gutenberg’s Bruno author page locates the Italian dialogues as public-domain objects. The Cambridge Companion independently treats De la causa as a distinct 1584 metaphysical dialogue. Official/public carrier: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2547 (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-giordano-bruno/ (opens in a new tab). SEP is a finding aid. The records establish the 1584 title. They do not establish a unique later metaphysics-citation series as welfare. Cena is not this metaphysics; 1600 is not this colophon. A missing 1584 Causa would change the row.

Established: Bruno published De la causa, principio et uno in 1584. Not established: that 1600 is this book alone, or that Cena is this title. A showing of no such 1584 dialogue would change the row.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. De la causa is not Cena and not the execution. Mixed effects of Bruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Bruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno. Naming Giordano Bruno does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1584-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorGiordano Bruno
  2. contributed toFactBruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno
  3. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Bruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/br-causa-1584

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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