[169] See Ciampoli’s letter to Galileo, 27th May, 1623. (Op. ix. p. 30.) [170] Compare Cesarini’s letters to Galileo of 23rd June, 1621, and 7th May, 1622. (Op. ix. pp. 5 and 18.) [171] See his letters to Galileo in 1621 and 1622. (Op. ix. pp. 11-14 and 16-18; and Wolynski, “Lettere,” etc., p. 65.) [172] “Scandaglio della Libra Astronomica e Filosofica di Lothario Sarsi nella controversia delle Comete, e particolarmente delle tre ultimamente vedute l’anno 1618, di Giovanni Battista Stelluti da Fabriano dottor di Legge.” [173] “Il Saggiatore, nel quale con bilancia esquisita e quista si ponderano le cose contenute nella Libra Astronomica e Filosofica di Lothario Sarsi Sigensano.” [174] See Cesarini’s letter to Galileo, 12th January, 1623. (Op. ix. pp. 22-24.) [175] Op. ix. p. 26. [176] See Ciampoli to Galileo, 6th May, 1623. (Wolynski, “Lettere,” etc., p. 68.) [177] See Ciampoli’s Letter to Galileo, 27th May, 1623. (Op. ix. p. 30.) [178] See Ranke: “Die römischen Päpste,” etc., vol. ii. p. 531, etc. [179] See Op. viii. pp. 173, 206, 208, 209, 262, 427; ix. p. 31. [180] Op. viii. p. 206. [181] Op. viii. p. 262. [182] Op. viii. p. 451. Pieralisi in his work, “Urban VIII. and Galileo Galilei,” Rome, 1875, pp. 22, 27, gives Barberini’s ode, which is in Latin, and consists of nineteen strophes, as well as a commentary on it, which has not been printed by Campanella. See also pp. 65, 66, Galileo’s reply to Barberini, in which he expresses his warm thanks and his admiration of the poetry. This is not in Albèri’s work. [183] Op. iv., “Saggiatore,” p. 172. [184] See for these transactions the letter of Mario Guiducci, from Rome, to Galileo, of 18th April, 1625. (Op. ix. pp. 78-80.) [185] Cesarini’s letter to Galileo, 28th October, 1623. (Op. ix. pp. 43, 44.) [186] Rinuccini’s letters to Galileo, 3rd November and 2nd December, 1623. (Op. Suppl. p. 154; and ix. p. 50.) [187] Op. vi. pp. 289, 290. [188] Op. ix. pp. 42, 43. [189] Letter of 20th October. (Op. ix. pp. 40, 41.) [190] See Rinuccini’s letter to Galileo of 2nd December, 1623; and Guiducci’s of 18th December. (Op. ix. pp. 48-53.) [191] Compare Ciampoli’s letter to Galileo of 16th March, 1624. (Op. ix. p. 55.) [192] Op. ix. p. 56. [193] Compare his letter from Rome of 8th June to Cesi, who was then at Aquasparta. (Op. vi. pp. 295-297.) [194] Ibid. [195] ... “Fu da S. Santita risposto come S. Chiesa non l’avea dannata, ne era per dannarla per eretica, ma solo per temeraria.” Comp. Galileo’s letter to Cesi, 8th June. (Op. vi. pp. 295-297.) [196] Page 92. [197] Comp. Galileo’s letter to Cesi, 8th June, before mentioned. [198] History has assigned the merit of this valuable discovery to Zacharias Jansen, a spectacle maker of Middelburg, from whose workshop the first microscope went forth near the end of the 16th century, probably in 1590. [199] Rezzi, pp. 8-10 and 36-40. [200] Op. vi. p. 297; ix. p. 64.