[321] “30th Dec. 1632, a Nativitate. Sanctissimus mandavit Inquisitori rescribi quod Sanctitas Sua et Sacra Congregatio nullatenus potest et debet tolerare hujusmodi subterfugia et ad effectum verificandi an revera in statu tali reperiatur quod non possit ad urbem absque vitae periculo accedere. Sanctissimus et Sacra Congregatio transmittet illuc commissarium una cum medicum qui illum visitent ut certam et sinceram relationem faciant de statu in quo reperitur, et si erit in statu tali ut venire possit illum carceratum et ligatum cum ferris transmittat. Si vero causa sanitatas et ob periculum vitae transmissio erit differenda, statim postquam convaluerit et cessante periculo carceratus et ligatus ac cum ferris transmittat. Commissiarius autem et medici transmittantur ejus sumptibus et expensis quid se in tali statu et temporibus constituit et tempore oportuno ut ei fuerat preceptum venire et facere contempsit.” (Gherardi’s Documents, Doc. x.; and Vat. MS. fol. 409 vo.) [322] Op. ix. pp. 322, 323. This last observation of the Grand Duke’s, only meaning that he reckoned on a speedy release for Galileo, afterwards gave Cioli occasion, as we shall see by-and-by, for a most mean act towards Galileo. [323] It is incomprehensible how many of Galileo’s biographers, even Parchappe (p. 216) and H. Martin (p. 120), who had Albèri’s work at command, fix the 15th as the date. And yet we have a letter of Galileo’s to the Cardinal de Medici of the 15th Jan. (Op. vii. pp. 15, 16), asking if he had any commissions, in which he expressly mentions “the 20th instant” as the day of his departure. [324] “Famosi et antiqui problematis de telluris motu vel quiete hactenus optata solutio: ad Em. Card. Richelium Ducem et Franciæ Parem. A. Jo. Bapt. Morino apud Gallos et Bellajocensibus Francopolitano Doct. Med. atque Paris. Mathematum professore. Terra stat in æternum; Sol oritur et occidit. Eccles. Cap. I. Parisiis apud tuctorem juxta Pontem novum 1631, in 40.” [325] “Liberti Fromondi in Acad. Lovaniensi S. Theolog. Doctoris et Professoris ordinarii. Ant.-Aristarchus, sive orbis terræ immobilis. Liber unicus, in quo decretum S. Congreg. S. R. E. Cardinalium anno 1616, adversus Pythagorico-Copernicanos editum defenditur. Antverpiæ ex officina Plantiniana 1631, in 40.” [326] The letter to the Grand Duchess Christine. [327] Op. vii. pp. 16-20. [328] The Inquisitor informed the Holy Office, two days later, that Galileo had left Florence on the 20th. (Vat. MS. fol. 411 ro.; and Gherardi’s Documents, Doc. xii.) [329] Comp. Niccolini’s letter to Galileo of 5th Feb., 1633. (Op. ix. p. 327.) [330] Niccolini’s despatch to Cioli of 14th Feb. (Op. ix. p. 432.) [331] See Niccolini’s despatches to Cioli of 16th and 19th Feb. (Op. ix. pp. 432, 433.) [332] See Niccolini’s despatch to Cioli of 19th Feb. [333] See Galileo’s letter to Cioli of 19th Feb. (Op. vii. pp. 20-22.) [334] Ibid. [335] Comp. Galileo’s letter to Geri Bocchineri of 25th Feb. (Op. vii. p. 23.)