[425] Louis Combes’s “Gal. et L’Inquisition Romaine,” Paris, 1876, is a pamphlet of no scientific value whatever, distinguished by astounding ignorance of the Galileo literature. The author complains that the original documents relating to the trial are buried among the secret papal archives, and that nothing more is known of them than what Mgr. Marini has thought fit to communicate! The publication, then, of the most important documents of the Vat. MS., by Epinois, 1867, seems to have escaped the notice of M. Louis Combes!
[426] Nelli, vol. ii. p. 562, note 2.
[427] Page 69, note 2.
[428] Venturi, vol. ii. p. 182; Nelli, vol. ii. p. 537.
[429] See Appendix: History of the Vat. MS.
[430] See Dr. Emil Wohlwill’s “Ist Galileo gefoltert worden.” Leipzig, 1877.
[431] “Elogio del Galilei.” Livorno, 1775.
[432] In Fabroni, “Vitæ Italorum,” i.
[433] “Notizie degli aggrandimenti delle scienze fosiche in Toscana.” i. Firenze, 1780.
[434] “Lettere inedite di uomini illustri.” Firenze, 1773-75.