Coerenza contra estensione : Lullo e Bruno tra Ars combinatoria e Qabbalah

The article analyses Bruno's revision of Lull's ars combinatoria by comparing the works of the two authors both with each other and with the cabalistic tradition to whom they refer. It is hence shown that due to a different understanding of God's role within the system and of the hierarchic or non-hierarchic nature of the scala naturae, Bruno's version of Lull's organon lost its original value of logical and ontological necessity, and consequently could no longer be received as a method for universal knowledge, but only as a 'rhetorical' device for dispositio and inventio