Et quia etiam ad notitiam præfatæ Sacræ Congregationis peruenit, falsam illiam doctrinam Pithagoricam, diuinæq; scripturæ omnino aduersantem, de mobilitate Terræ, et immobilitate Solis, quam Nicolaus Copernicus de reuolutionibus orbium cœlestium, et Didacus Astunica in Job etiam docent, iam diuulgari et à multis recipi; sicuti videre est ex quadam epistola impressa cuiusdam Patris Carmelitæ, cui titulus, Lettera del R. Padre Maestro Paolo Antonio Foscarini Carmelitano, sopra l’opinione de Pittagorici, e del Copernico, della mobilità della Terra, e stabilità del Sole, et il nuouo Pittagorico Sistema del Mondo, in Napoli per Lazzaro Scoriggio 1615. in qua dictus Pater ostendere conatur, præfatam doctrinam de immobilitate Solis in centro Mundi, et mobilitate Terræ, consonam esse, veritati, et non aduersari Sacræ Scripturæ: Ideo nè vlteriùs huiusmodi opinio in perniciem Catholicæ veritatis serpat, censuit dictos Nicolaum Copernicum de reuolutionibus orbium, et Didacum Astvnica in Job, suspendendos esse donec corrigantur. Librum verò Patris Pauli Antonij Foscarini Carmelitæ omninò prohibendum, atque damnandum; aliosq́; omnes Libros pariter idem docentes prohibendos, Prout præsenti Decreto omnes respectiuè prohibet, damnat, atque suspendit. In quorum fidem præsens Decretum manu, et sigillo Illustrissimi & Reuerendissimi D. Cardinalis S. Cæciliæ Ep̃i Albaneñ signatum, et munitum fuit die 5. Martij 1616. P. Episc. Albanen. Card. S. Cæciliæ. Locus † sigilli. _Registr. fol. 90._ _F. Franciscus Magdalenus Capiferreus Ord. Prædic. Secret._ ROME, Ex Typographia Cameræ Apostolicæ. M.DCXVI. VI. _REMARKS ON THE SENTENCE AND RECANTATION._[646] We give the Sentence and Recantation as given by Giorgio Polacco in his work, “Anticopernicus Catholicus seu de terræ Statione, et de salis motu, contra systema Copernicanum, Catholicæ Assertionis,” pp. 67-76, Venice, 1644. Everything indicates that these are the only authentic copies of the originals, while the opinion adopted by many authors that the Latin texts published by P. Riccioli in his “Almagestum Novum,” 1651, are the originals, is not tenable on close examination, for it is obvious that they are translated from the Italian. According to the rules of the Inquisition, sentences and recantations were written in the mother tongue,[647] that they might be generally understood. P. Olivieri, General of the Dominicans and Commissary of the Inquisition, also says in his posthumous work, “Di Copernico e di Galileo,” Bologna, 1872, p. 62, “We find the history of it, etc., in the sentence passed on Galileo, which is given in many works in a Latin translation. I take it from Venturi, who gives it in the Italian original.”