[309] The cup of papal wrath had by this time been emptied on Ciampoli’s head. He had been deprived of his important office as Secretary of the Papal Briefs, and in order to remove him from Rome he was made Governor of Montalto, and entered on his post at the end of November. (See the letters of Castelli to Galileo. Op. ix. pp. 306, 313-316.)
[310] For these documents, from which the above narrative is taken, see Op. ix. pp. 312, 313 and 429, 430.
[311] Vat. MS. fol. 401 ro.
[312] Gherardi’s Documents, and Vat. MS. fol. 402 vo.
[313] Op. ix. pp. 430, 431.
[314] Ibid. pp. 318, 319.
[315] Vat. MS. fol. 406 ro.
[316] Ibid. pp. 407 ro.
[317] Op. ix. p. 431.
[318] Ibid. pp. 319, 320.