The Solitudes, p.369-427
Giordano Bruno is shown around the Vatican by an unnamed blonde boy, surely Hermes, leading him like a psychopomp down into the library. Bruno reading the Divine Pymander finds Aegypt at last, and the ending of all in Adocentyn. He has his realization of infinity in the Alps
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Not Cupid/Eros?
You note what is to me a key recipe for Hermetic discourse: it combines nostalgia with intellectual cosmopolitanism. The American Pierce yearns for Bruno's early modern Europe and Britain, while the pan-European Bruno -- circulating from Italy throughout western and central Europe -- pined for the magic of ancient Egypt. (See, in this connection, the Theosophical mystique of which we are heirs.)
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