[49] See the original documents in Epinois, pp. 34-36. Martin's translation does not seem exactly correct.
[50] See full official text in Epinois.
[51] See proofs of this in Martin. The reader should be reminded that the archives exposed within the past few years have made the statements of early writers untrustworthy on very many of the nicer points.
[52] See Inchofer's Tractatus Syllepticus, cited in Galileo's letter to Deodati, July 28, 1634.
[53] It is not probable that torture in the ordinary sense was administered to Galileo, though it was threatened. See Th. Martin, Vie de Galilée, for a fair summing up of the case. For text of the abjuration, see Epinois; also, Private Life of Galileo, Appendix.
[54] Martin, p. 227.
[55] Martin, p. 243.
[56] For the persecution of Galileo's memory, see Th. Martin, chaps. ix and x. For documentary proofs, see de l'Epinois. For a collection of the slanderous theories invented against Galileo, see Martin, final chapters and appendix. Both these authors are devoted to the Church, but, unlike Monsignor Marini, are too upright to resort to the pious fraud of suppressing documents or interpolating pretended facts.
[57] See Martin, pp. 401, 402.
[58] See de l'Epinois, p. 35, where the document is given in its original Latin.