The Sleepwalkers (293 page)

And
whereas
it
appeared
to
us
that
you
had
not
stated
the
full
truth
with
regard
to
your
intention,
we
thought
it
necessary
to
subject
you
to
a
rigorous
examination
at
which
(without
prejudice,
however,
to
the
matters
confessed
by
you
and
set
forth
as
above
with
regard
to
your
said
intention)
you
answered
like
a
good
Catholic.
Therefore,
having
seen
and
maturely
considered
the
merits
of
this
your
case,
together
with
your
confessions
and
excuses
abovementioned,
and
all
that
ought
justly
to
be
seen
and
considered,
we
have
arrived
at
the
underwritten
final
sentence
against
you:

Invoking,
therefore,
the
most
holy
name
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
and
of
His
most
glorious
Mother,
ever
Virgin
Mary,
by
this
our
final
sentence,
which
sitting
in
judgment,
with
the
counsel
and
advice
of
the
Reverend
Masters
of
sacred
theology
and
Doctors
of
both
Laws,
our
assessors,
we
deliver
in
these
writings,
in
the
cause
and
causes
at
present
before
us
between
the
Magnificent
Carlo
Sinceri,
Doctor
of
both
Laws,
Proctor
Fiscal
of
this
Holy
Office,
of
the
one
part,
and
you
Galileo
Galilei,
the
defendant,
here
present,
examined,
tried,
and
confessed
as
shown
above,
of
the
other
part
–

We
say,
pronounce,
sentence,
and
declare
that
you,
the
said
Galileo,
by
reason
of
the
matters
adduced
in
trial,
and
by
you
confessed
as
above,
have
rendered
yourself
in
the
judgment
of
this
Holy
Office
vehemently
suspected
of
heresy,
namely,
of
having
believed
and
held
the
doctrine-which
is
false
and
contrary
to
the
sacred
and
divine
Scriptures
–
that
the
Sun
is
the
center
of
the
world
and
does
not
move
from
east
to
west
and
that
the
Earth
moves
and
is
not
the
center
of
the
world;
and
that
an
opinion
may
be
held
and
defended
as
probable
after
it
has
been
declared
and
defined
to
be
contrary
to
the
Holy
Scripture;
and
that
consequently
you
have
incurred
all
the
censures
and
penalties
imposed
and
promulgated
in
the
sacred
canons
and
other
constitutions,
general
and
particular,
against
such
delinquents.
From
which
we
are
content
that
you
be
absolved,
provided
that,
first,
with
a
sincere
heart
and
unfeigned
faith,
you
abjure,
curse,
and
detest
before
us
the
aforesaid
errors
and
heresies
and
every
other
error
and
heresy
contrary
to
the
Catholic
and
Apostolic
Roman
Church
in
the
form
to
be
prescribed
by
us
for
you.

And,
in
order
that
this
your
grave
and
pernicious
error
and
transgression
may
not
remain
altogether
unpunished
and
that
you
may
be
more
cautious
in
the
future
and
an
example
to
others
that
they
may
abstain
from
similar
delinquencies,
we
ordain
that
the
book
of
the
'Dialogue
of
Galileo
Galilei'
be
prohibited
by
public
edict.

We
condemn you to the formal prison of this Holy Office during our
pleasure, and by way of salutary penance we enjoin that for three
years to come you repeat once a week the seven penitential Psalms.
Reserving to ourselves liberty to moderate, commute, or take off, in
whole or in part, the aforesaid penalties and penance.

And
so we say, pronounce, sentence, declare, ordain, and reserve in this
and in any other better way and form which we can and may rightfully
employ." (Ibid., pp. 306-10.)

43

"I,
Galileo,
son
of
the
late
Vincenzo
Galilei,
Florentine,
aged
seventy
years,
arraigned
personally
before
this
tribunal
and
kneeling
before
you,
Most
Eminent
and
Reverend
Lord
Cardinals
Inquisitors-General
against
heretical
pravity
throughout
the
entire
Christian
commonwealth,
having
before
my
eyes
and
touching
with
my
hands
the
Holy
Gospels,
swear
that
I
have
always
believed,
do
believe,
and
by
God's
help
will
in
the
future
believe
all
that
is
held,
preached,
and
taught
by
the
Holy
Catholic
and
Apostolic
Church.
But,
whereas
–
after
an
injunction
had
been
judicially
intimated
to
me
by
this
Holy
Office
to
the
effect
that
I
must
altogether
abandon
the
false
opinion
that
the
Sun
is
the
center
of
the
world
and
immovable
and
that
the
Earth
is
not
the
center
of
the
world
and
moves
and
that
I
must
not
hold,
defend,
or
teach
in
any
way
whatsoever,
verbally
or
in
writing,
the
said
false
doctrine,
and
after
it
had
been
notified
to
me
that
the
said
doctrine
was
contrary
to
Holy
Scripture
–
I
wrote
and
printed
a
book
in
which
I
discuss
this
new
doctrine
already
condemned
and
adduce
arguments
of
great
cogency
in
its
favour
without
presenting
any
solution
of
these,
I
have
been
pronounced
by
the
Holy
Office
to
be
vehemently
suspected
of
heresy,
that
is
to
say,
of
having
held
and
believed
that
the
Sun
is
the
center
of
the
world
and
immovable
and
that
the
Earth
is
not
the
center
and
moves: