(Avvisi) of the time; one, dated February 12, 1600, commenting on
the case; the other, dated February 19, relating the execution
on the 17th. (See both in S. R., pp. 264-65. They were first
printed by Berti in Documenti intorno a Giordano Bruno, Rome,
1880, and are reprinted in his Vita, ed. 1889, cap. xix; also
by Levi, as cited.) Against these testimonies the sole plea is
that they mis-state Bruno's opinions and the duration of his
imprisonment--a test which would reduce to mythology the contents
of most newspapers in our own day. The writer in the Scottish
Review makes the suicidal suggestion that, inasmuch as the errors
as to dates occur in Schopp's letter, "the so-called Schopp
was fabricated from these notices, or they from Schopp"--thus
admitting one to be historical.