Brachesco, Bracesco and Toladanus

Meaning

Brachesco is cited for understanding the hidden sweetness of the bitter, in a dialogue called Demogorgon. Both spellings and the title are retained as the witness gives them; the title is not silently corrected to another work or confused with every occurrence of Demogorgon as cosmic governor.

Later Bracesco is defended against the “envious Toladanus” in a reported quarrel about iron scum and failed trial. Nuysement uses the dispute to reject literal identification with ordinary iron scum and defend figurative names. Envy, deception and failure are claims within his report, not independently established accusations. Bracesco is also invoked for burning water whose visible condition differs from its hidden preserving virtue. The citation supplies an authority for that distinction, not a modern chemical identification or endorsement of ingestion.