# Bruno publishes De la causa, principio et uno

Date: 1584

## The fact

In 1584 [Bruno](/people/giordano-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. Do not merge with 1600. Do not treat Spinoza as 1584. Do not twin all three 1584 dialogues into one Fact — they are three titles; this is the cause-principle one. 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.

## Evidence and sources

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. Independent: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-giordano-bruno/. 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.

Official or archival record: Project Gutenberg — Giordano Bruno (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2547; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Improving knowledge-record path. High confidence on 1584. Modest weight. Trial charges remain complex and later. Cena remains a different title. Do not invent a unique modern ontology coefficient.

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

## What is established and what is not

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.

The attached driver is [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. 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.

## People

- Giordano Bruno: https://factrail.ai/people/giordano-bruno

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2547
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-giordano-bruno/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/br-causa-1584