Giordano BRUNO 
(Nola,
Naples, Italy, 1548 - Rome, Italy, February 17th, 1600)
«Maiori
forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam»
«Perhaps
you are more afraid of this sentence against me than I am of suffering
it»
Giordano
Bruno to the judges of the Congregation of Cardinal Inquisitors,
8th February, 1600
SONNET IN PRAISE
OF THE DONKEY
Oh
holy asininity, holy ignorance,
Holy silliness and pious devotion,
You only can make souls so good,
That human brains and study can't do better;
Tiring watch of art whatever may be,
Or invention doesn't reach it,
Neither the contemplation of the sapients
Till heaven, where you build your own place.
What is worth, you curious ones, studying,
Willing to know what nature does,
If the stars are ground, fire and sea?
The holy asininity doesn't care of this, but;
Clasping hands and kneeling down it wants to stay,
Waiting from God its own fortune.
No thing lasts,
Except for the yield of the eternal rest,
Which God shall give us after the exequies.
from:
"Cabala
del cavallo pegaseo". Original text from (http://www.filosofico.net/pegaseo.htm)
English translation
by Andrea Gaddini. I apologize for any error.
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