CHAPTER III. 



WE will now return to the narrative ; and in due 

 course discuss the condemnation of Galileo by the 

 Inquisition sixteen years after the events just 

 described. 



It may be mentioned, as illustrating the feeling in 

 Rome towards Galileo personally, that on the llth 

 March, 1616, he had an audience, lasting three- 

 quarters of an hour, of Pope Paul V. He assured 

 the Pope of the rectitude of his intentions, and 

 complained of the persecutions of his adversaries. 

 Paul V. answered very kindly, saying that both 

 himself and the Cardinals of the Index had formed 

 a high personal opinion of him, and did not believe 

 his calumniators. 



In the year 1620 there appeared a monitum of the 

 Congregation of the Index, permitting the reading of 

 the great work of Copernicus after certain specified 

 corrections had been made. 



Not long after this, in 1622, if I mistake not, Pope 

 Paul V. died, and Galileo's friend, Cardinal Barberini, 

 succeeded him, taking the name of Urban VIII. 



