. The Open court. en Galileos design to risk in this frivolous way the favor of theHoly Father so indispensable to him ; he had obviously in mindSimplicius of Alexandria (died 549), and preferred the name onaccount of the secondary meaning of simplicity. But the question might well be suggested whether the Jesuits,who certainly knew exactly what the new book of their arch-enemy THE STRUGGLE REGARDING THE POSITION OF THE EARTH. 465 contained, did not perhaps inspire the easy-going Father Riccardi,whom they could easily hoodwink, with the idea of granting theimprimatur only on the condition that
. The Open court. en Galileos design to risk in this frivolous way the favor of theHoly Father so indispensable to him ; he had obviously in mindSimplicius of Alexandria (died 549), and preferred the name onaccount of the secondary meaning of simplicity. But the question might well be suggested whether the Jesuits,who certainly knew exactly what the new book of their arch-enemy THE STRUGGLE REGARDING THE POSITION OF THE EARTH. 465 contained, did not perhaps inspire the easy-going Father Riccardi,whom they could easily hoodwink, with the idea of granting theimprimatur only on the condition that Simplicius be treated in theconclusion with the greatest reverence, in order to make so muchthe more probable the slander that the Pope was meant. It wouldhave been a diabolical plan to ruin their adversary past recovery,but it would do honor to their sagacity, for the slander so cleverlybrought forward found, as usual, a favorable ear; the Holy Fathermight even remember having uttered himself occasionally in his. The Visit of Milton to Galileo at Arcetri near Florence in 1D3S. Engraved by Ch. Baude from the picture by Tito Lessi, exhibited in the Salon ofthe Champs Elysees. repeated conversations with Galileo general objections similar tothose Simplicius offers against the Copernican theory. The resultwas that the Pope, from a warm admirer of Galileo, became a se-cret enemy, and gave the Jesuits entire liberty of action in thematter. The Catholic authors, it is true, considerit inconceivablethat Urban VIII. should have listened to so clumsy a slander,and even Reusch believes that he may infer from some of his utter-ances that he gave no weight to the talk of his courtiers, but in myopinion these champions of the Jesuits deceive themselves when 466 IHK OHKN COUKl they consider the insinuation entirely too clumsy, and forget togive another explanation of the Popes sudden change of mind. As early as August, 1632, there was issued in Rome a mandateprohibiting the further circulat
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