The Unarrested Italian View of Matter

Bruno is drawing on Epicurean physical theories that had been made available through the rediscovery of Lucretius's poem. Bruno assumes that the infinite power of God must have an infinite expression, otherwise he would be like a musician who knows how to play an instrument but sits idle without using it. In Bruno's universe, there is no down precisely because the aforementioned immensity of the love-infinity.