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and prudent nun, and, after Suor Luisa, the dearest and most intimate friend I have
and prudent nun, and, after Suor Luisa, the dearest and most intimate friend I have
So Current Affair" and satirically examined the 1616 Galileo "trial" as it might have
He might have ordered his assistant, Father Tinti, to compose the false minutes and
that we have observed any the phases of Venus in the Galilean telescope.
fashion I would surely not want to be tardy in thanking you for the loving gifts we have
They were reported to be clean, comfortable and to have good food.
be here to see us; yet my delight was all but destroyed when I learned that you have
believe, Sire, that you must be extremely occupied these days, or else you would have
by scholars until the 1960’s, and it was not until recently that these arguments have
another letter to you, enclosing the recipe for the pills that by now must surely have