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the Galilei in Santa Croce, at Florence, and the 

 city at once voted a public funeral and three thou- 

 sand crowns for a marble mausoleum. But the 

 church at Kome prevented, lest the pernicious 

 doctrine that the earth moves, should thereby 

 have confirmation. He was therefore buried in 

 an obscure corner of Del Noviziato, a side chapel 

 of Santa Croce. 



A century later, March 12, 1737, in the presence 

 of the learned men of Italy, with great ceremony, 

 the bones of Galileo were removed to a new rest- 

 ing-place in Santa Croce, and buried with his be- 

 loved friend, Viviani. An imposing monument 

 was erected over him. The truth finally tri- 

 umphed, as it always does. The works of Galileo, 

 in sixteen volumes, are no longer prohibited, as 

 thev were in his lifetime. 



