The Venetian Inquisition arrests Bruno on Mocenigo’s denunciation

On 23 May 1592 Giovanni Mocenigo’s denunciation moved the Venetian Inquisition to arrest Giordano Bruno in Venice, opening a Holy Office process whose articles already mixed theology, cosmology, and morals — not a Copernican-only police action. It is not the 1593 Rome transfer as a second twin if we skip transfer, not the 1599 refusal, and not the 17 February 1600 execution. Mocenigo accused; the Holy Office jailed. Bruno is the captured defendant. It does not claim he ran the court. Infinite worlds sit among Trinity, Christ, and manners in the denunciation tradition; heliocentrism-only is refused.

Context

Venetian Inquisition was a real criminal-religious court. Mocenigo’s first denunciation already lists infinite worlds among many items, with Trinity, Christ, and manners. Bellarmine’s later Roman role is a related-person neighbour of the Roman phase, not this Venetian night. A Copernicus-only 1592 sheet is exactly what the locators do not show. 17 February 1600 is a later killing.

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

Why it matters

Worsening justice path: Holy Office arrest. High confidence on the date. Modest-to-medium weight: he is defendant, not judge, and not the only cause of the court’s existence. Execution remains a later humanitarian harm. Return remains the 1591 door.

Shared responsibility is part of The Venetian Inquisition arrests Bruno on Mocenigo’s denunciation. Naming Giordano Bruno does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1592-05-23 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.