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PART ONE To Florence

[I] She who was so precious to you

[II] This grand book the universe

[III] Bright stars speak of your virtues

[IV] To have the truth seen and recognised

[V] In the very face of the Sun

[VI] Observant executrix of God’s commands

[VII] The malice of my persecutors

[VIII] Conjecture here among shadows

PART TWO On Bellosguardo

[IX] How our father is favoured

[X] To busy my self in your service

[XI] What we require above all else

[XII] Because of our zeal

[XIII] Through my memory of their eloquence

[XIV] A small and trifling body

[XV] On the right path by the grace of God

[XVI] The tempest of our many torments

PART THREE In Rome

[XVII] While seeking to immortalise your fame

[XVIII] Since the Lord chastises us with these whips

[XIX] The hope of having you always near

[XX] That I should be begged to publish such a work

PART FOUR Care of the Tuscan Embassy, Villa Medici, Rome

[XXI] How anxiously I live, awaiting word from you

[XXII] In the comfort of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

[XXIII] Vainglorious ambition, pure ignorance and inadvertence

[XXIV] Faith rested in the miraculous Madonna of Imprueta

[XXV] Judgment passed on your book and your person

PART FIVE At Siena

[XXVI] Not knowing how to refuse him the keys

[XXVII] Terrible destruction on the feast of San Lorenzo

[XXVIII] Recitation of the penitential psalms

[XXIX] The book of life, or, A prophet accepted in his own land

PART SIX From Arcetri

[XXX] My soul and its longing

[XXXI] Until I have this from your lips

[XXXII] As I struggle to understand

[XXXIII] The memory of the sweetnesses

IN GALILEO’S TIME

FLORENTINE WEIGHTS, MEASURES, CURRENCY

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