[495] Op. x. pp. 94-96. In Albèri the date of this letter is wrongly given as 1635; Pieralisi has found the original of it in the Barberiana, with date 5th Dec., 1634. (Pieralisi, pp. 304-310.)
[496] Op. x. pp. 96-98. In Albèri this letter is dated 1636 instead of 1635.
[497] Op. x. pp. 98, 99. Date wrongly given in Albèri as 13th instead of 31st Jan. See Pieralisi, pp. 313-317.
[498] These words were written in a truly prophetic spirit; for such a parallel was actually drawn by Voltaire in (vol. iv. p. 145) his “Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations, et sur les principaux faits de l’histoire, depuis Charlemagne jusquà Louis XIII.”
[499] Op. Suppl. pp. 361-363.
[500] Op. x. pp. 25-33; vii. pp. 52, 53, and 128.
[501] Op. x. pp. 29-33; vii. p. 140.
[502] Op. vii. pp. 65, 66, and 67, 68; also Galileo’s letter to Bernegger, 15th July, 1636. (Op. vii. pp. 69, 70.)
[503] Page 222.
[504] Comp. Galileo’s letter to Giovanni Buonamici, 16th August, 1636. (Op. vii. pp. 139, 140.)