[248] See this important letter of Riccardi’s to the Inquisitor at Florence. (Vat. MS. fol. 393 ro.)
[249] See points 1 and 3 of the memorial which was handed to the Pope at the first examination of Galileo by the preliminary commission. (Vat. MS. fol. 388.)
[250] Comp. p. 120.
[251] Marini, p. 127. Pieralisi tries to convince the reader that Ciampoli acted quite despotically in the matter; and says that when Riccardi refers to “the Pope,” it was not Maffeo Barberini, but Mgr. Ciampoli, “Giovanni Ciampoli non Maffeo Barberini era il Papa”! p. 113, a statement which, considering Urban’s despotic character and the absence of historical proof, appears very arbitrary.
[252] Zeitschrift für Mathematik u. Physik. 9th Series, Part 3, p. 184.
[253] Marini, pp. 116, 117; Op. Suppl. pp. 324, 325.
[254] Op. vi. p. 389.
[255] Ibid. p. 390.
[256] Ibid.
[257] Op. ix. p. 271.