GALILEO GALILEI. * * * * * _2 vols. Demy 8vo. Cloth, 32s._ THE RENAISSANCE OF ART IN FRANCE. By Mrs. MARK PATTISON. With Nineteen Steel Engravings. * * * * * _2 vols. Demy 8vo. Cloth, 24s._ THE CIVILIZATION OF THE PERIOD OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. By JACOB BURCKHARDT. Authorized Translation by S. G. C. MIDDLEMORE. “The whole of the first part of Dr Burckhardt’s work deals with what may be called the Political Preparation for the Renaissance. It is impossible here to do more than express a high opinion of the compact way in which the facts are put before the reader.... The second volume of Dr. Burckhardt’s work is, we think, more full and complete in itself, more rich in original thought, than the first. His account of the causes which prevented the rise of a great Italian drama is very clear and satisfying.”—_Saturday Review._ LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. GALILEO GALILEI _AND THE ROMAN CURIA_. _FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES._ BY KARL VON GEBLER. _TRANSLATED, WITH THE SANCTION OF THE AUTHOR, BY MRS. GEORGE STURGE._ [Illustration] LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1879. LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR. MADAM,— It is the desire of every author, every prosecutor of research, that the products of his labours, the results of his studies, should be widely circulated. This desire arises, especially in the case of one who has devoted himself to research, not only from a certain egotism which clings to us all, but from the wish that the laborious researches of years, often believed to refute old and generally-received errors, should become the common property of as many as possible. The author of the present work is no exception to these general rules; and it therefore gives him great pleasure, and fills him with gratitude, that you, Madam, should have taken the trouble to translate the small results of his studies into the language of Newton, and thus have rendered them more accessible to the English nation. But little more than two years have elapsed since the book first appeared in Germany, but this period has been a most important one for researches into the literature relating to Galileo.