[259] Gebler, pp. 54, 129, and passim; The Private Life of Galileo (by Mrs. Olney), Boston, 1870, pp. 67–72. [↑]
[260] Galileo’s letter to Kepler, cited by Gebler, p. 26. [↑]
[261] The Jesuits were expelled from Venice in 1616, in retaliation for a papal interdict. [↑]
[262] See it summarized by Gebler, pp. 46–60, and quoted in the Private Life, pp. 83–85. [↑]
[263] The measure of reverence with which the orthodox handled the matter may be inferred from the fact that the Dominican Caccini, who preached against Galileo in Florence, took as one of his texts the verse in Acts i: “Viri Galilaei, quid statis aspicientes in cœlum,” making a pun on the Scripture. [↑]
[264] See this summarized by Gebler, pp. 64–70. [↑]
[265] See The Private Life of Galileo, pp. 86–87, 91, 99; Gebler, p. 44; Fahie, pp. 169–70; Berti, Il Processo Originale de Galileo Galilei, 1878, p. 53. [↑]
[266] Gebler (p. 101) solemnly comments on this letter as a lapse into “servility” on Galileo’s part. [↑]