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treated as a prisoner, being placed in the apartments 

 of the " Fiscal of the Holy Office," instead of in the 

 ordinary chambers appropriated to accused persons ; 

 moreover, he had leave to walk in the garden, and 

 was attended by his own servant. He said himself, 

 in a letter to his friend Bocchineri, that his health 

 was good, and that he had every attention shown to 

 him by the Tuscan Ambassador and Ambassadress. 

 It is well to note these things, because they dispose 

 of the popular accusations of cruelty which have been 

 made by ignorant or malicious controversialists, 

 although the antagonists with whom I am dealing 

 are too well informed to resort to them. 



A slight indisposition from which our philosopher 

 suffered about this time, illustrated still further the 

 desire which existed to treat him with personal 

 kindness ; the Commissary and the Fiscal charged 

 with the process, both visited him and spoke en- 

 couragingly to him. As soon as he had recovered 

 he requested to have a further hearing. This took 

 place on the 30th April ; but meanwhile, three 

 theologians, who had been consulted, Augusttn Orezzi, 

 Melchior Inchofer, and Zacharias Pasqualigo, had 

 each separately presented a memorial to the effect 

 that Galileo had taught in his book the motion of 

 the Earth and the immobility of the Sun. At the 

 hearing on the 30th April, being asked to say what- 

 ever occurred to him, he stated that he had read his 

 Dialogue again not having seen it for three years 

 previously in order to ascertain if there was any- 



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