| He was standing in the middle of the room, dressed richly, like a duke or a nobleman. |
| Both were riding horses, the villager on a fat grey pony and the nobleman on a lean sorrel. |
| In 1591 Bruno returned to Italy after being invited by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Mocenigo to educate the aristocrat in mnemonics. |
| It is another anachronism to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman. |
| The story goes that as a boy, he saw a local nobleman set his dog on a peasant woman who was knocked to the ground and battered. |
| To her surprise, the nobleman started to laugh and he continued to laugh for some time. |
