[475] Venturi, vol. ii. p. 127.
[476] Op. ix. pp. 447, 448.
[477] Comp. Niccolini’s despatch to Cioli, 3rd Dec. (Op. ix. p. 448.)
[478] Vat. MS. fol. 534 ro.
[479] Vat. MS., fol. without paging after 534; also Gherardi’s Documents, Doc. xx.
[480] Op. ix. pp. 407, 408.
[481] At the close of this year two documents were published which have often been used as historical sources for the story of Galileo’s trial; namely, (1) a narration by Francesco Buonamici of the famous trial; and (2) an assumed letter of Galileo’s to his friend and correspondent, Father Vincenzo Renieri, intended to give a concise history of the trial. The first has been pronounced by historical research to be quite worthless, even if not, as H. Martin (p. 185) thinks, a forgery; the second as decidedly apocryphal, so that neither are mentioned here. (Comp. Op. ix. pp. 449-452; vii. pp. 40-43; and the valuable treatise by G. Guasti: “Le relazioni di Galileo con alcuni Pratesi a proposito del Falso Buonamici scopalto del Signor H. Martin.” Archivo Storico Italiano. Firenze, 1873, vol. xvii.)
[482] See Galileo’s letter to Barberini, 17th December, 1633. (Vat. MS. fol. 541 ro.)
[483] Op. x. pp. 2 and 11.
[484] Vat. MS. fol. 547.