"And for most of confirmatione I will not haver 'seal it' to take the damn true opinion of the mobility 'of the earth, and stability' of the Sun, though I will be 'conceded, Just like the I want, habilita', and time to be able do more 'clear dimostratione, I set about doing it, and the opportunity there' ... opportune. "are the words of Galileo Galilei, pronounced April 30th of 1633 before the tribunal of the Inquisition, by which the Galileo and 'compelled to distance themselves from the Copernican theory to avoid serious punishment.
The trial, which ended 22 June 1633 with the same conviction for heresy and the abjuration requirement, are only one of the valuable evidence contained in "Galileo Galilei. The splendor and the pain of a "divine man" "(Mauro Pagliai Publisher, pp. 256, EUR 38). The result of painstaking research by Monsignor Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Secret, an expert in religious history and deep knowledge of Galileo's life, the work traces the more 'dramatic life of the great scientist, accompanied by numerous illustrations, color photographs and exclusive documents such as letters written to the authorities' Church and the minutes of the process.
In 1632 was published the famous "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", where Galileo compares the geocentric theory of Ptolemy, then embraced by the Church with that Copernicus's heliocentric, considered heretical as openly hostile to the sacred scriptures. Accused by Pope Urban VIII to embrace the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo, which already 'had been interrogated by the Inquisition in 1916, and' forced in 1933 to return to Rome and stand trial for heresy. Elderly and infirm, was jailed, threatened with torture and eventually forced to recant publicly to avoid the death sentence. The punishment will be 'imprisonment for life, who will serve' in his villa in Arcetri, near Florence: will spend 'his last year (going to die' in 1642) to illness or quarantine.
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