[296] After Galileo’s signature follow the autograph attestations of the notary and witnesses, of whose presence Galileo knew nothing. (Vat. MS. fol. 398 ro.) [297] Op. vii. p. 6. [298] The address does not indicate which of the Cardinals Barberini, but it is clear from Niccolini’s despatch of 13th November, 1632, to Cioli, that it was to Cardinal Antonio, jun., nephew of the Pope, and not, as Albèri assumes, to Cardinal Antonio, sen., the Pope’s brother. [299] There is no clue whatever as to who this personage was. From what Galileo says, it must have been some high ecclesiastical dignitary. [300] On this point also a passage in a letter of Campanella’s to Galileo of 22nd October, 1632 (Op. ix. p. 303), is worth mentioning. He says: “They are doing all they possibly can here in Rome, by speaking and writing, to prove that you have acted contrary to orders.” [301] Op. vii. pp. 7-13. [302] Vat. MS. fol. 403 ro. [303] Op. ix. pp. 304-306. [304] Ibid. pp. 428, 429. [305] Niccolini was mistaken if he thought that this tribunal was, according to ecclesiastical notions, infallible. [306] Op. ix. p. 311. [307] See Niccolini to Cioli, 6th November. (Wolynski, “La Diplomazia,” etc., p. 50.) [308] Gherardi’s Collection of Documents, Doc. vii. [309] The cup of papal wrath had by this time been emptied on Ciampoli’s head. He had been deprived of his important office as Secretary of the Papal Briefs, and in order to remove him from Rome he was made Governor of Montalto, and entered on his post at the end of November. (See the letters of Castelli to Galileo. Op. ix. pp. 306, 313-316.) [310] For these documents, from which the above narrative is taken, see Op. ix. pp. 312, 313 and 429, 430. [311] Vat. MS. fol. 401 ro. [312] Gherardi’s Documents, and Vat. MS. fol. 402 vo. [313] Op. ix. pp. 430, 431. [314] Ibid. pp. 318, 319. [315] Vat. MS. fol. 406 ro. [316] Ibid. pp. 407 ro. [317] Op. ix. p. 431. [318] Ibid. pp. 319, 320. [319] See Castelli’s Letters to Galileo of 2nd and 16th Oct., 1632. (Op. ix. pp. 295-298, and 299-301.) [320] See his letters. (Op. ix. pp. 306, 307, and 313-315.)