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Having escaped from Rome he spent 4-5 months at Noli, a little coast town near Genoa, supporting himself by teaching grammar to children and the Sphere to certain gentlemen of condition.

Life of Giordano Bruno
Catalog of the Scientific Community
Galileo Project at Rice University

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
Giordano Bruno

{gentlemen of condition?}