[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.