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Accademia degli Alterati, 23–24 , 25 GG, criticized by, 81 , 84–85 Accademia dei Lincei, 10 GG’s library, in, 20 , 21 , 27 Accademia del Cimento, 139 GG, used by, 11 , 13 , 14 , 22 , 62–70 , 71 , 74 , Accademia del Disegno, 23 75–76 , 77 , 85 , 88–94 , 95–99 , 103 , 107 , 111 , Accademia della Crusca, 77 , 79 , 108 , 133 112 , 114 , 147 , 161 , 166 , 172 Accademia Fiorentina, 23 Chiaramonti, used by, 168–169 accomodatio , 17–18 , 35 , 43 , 100 , 113 , 114 Della Porta, used by, 15 Aesop, 22–23 , 76 Orlando furioso , 1 , 5 , 24 , 28 , 101 , 157 Aggiunti, Niccolò, 39 Tartaglia, used by, 39–40 , 134 Agrippa, Cornelius, 37 Vincenzo Galilei, used by, 22–23 Alberti, Leon Battista, 7 , 8 , 9 Ariosto–Tasso literary disputes, 24 , 25 , 51 , 77 , Alhazen, 39 106 , 128 , 157 , 159 Alighieri, Dante, 99 , 100 , 108 , 133 , 155 , 161 , 170 , Aristarchus, 107 192 Aristotle, 3 , 5 , 6 , 30 , 33 , 35 , 38 , 45 , 48 , 49 , 54 , Della Porta, used by, 15 63 , 64 , 70 , 91 , 98 , 100 , 104 , 105 , 106 , Delle Colombe, used by, 53 108 , 129 , 143 , 153 , 157 , 159 , 167 , 168 , 170 , GG, used by, 88 , 140 , 148 , 161 , 178 175 , 205 GG’s library, in, 21 , 133 , 211 challenged authority of, 8 , 102 , 127 , 143–144 Piccolomini, used by, 35 followers, 1 , 7 , 11 , 13 , 64–65 , 66 , 68 , 75 , 95 , Varchi, used by, 132 96–98 , 100 , 104 , 112 , 120 , 127 , 130 , 136 , 137 , verisimilitude, 118 141 , 145–146 , 148–153 , 162 , 166 , 168–169 see also Sagredo (character), as Dantean ﬁ gure Homer, use of, 31 Altieri Biagi, Maria Luisa, 123 , 132 , 138 , 148 , 214 Armour, Peter, 20 , 25 , 73 , 74 , 76 , 148 , 171 Amadis of Gaul , 5 , 27 , 108 , 120 , 153 atomism, 30 , 141 , 142 , 159 , 216 Angiolieri, Cecco, 45 Antonello, Pierpaolo, 11 , 141 , 158 , 172 Bacon, Francis, 3 , 4 , 9 , 10 , 106 Apelles (artist), 126 Bandello, Matteo, 15 Apelles (pseud.), see Scheiner, Christoph, S.J. Barberino, Andrea da, 19 Apian, Peter, 10 Barclay, John, 28 Apollonius of Rhodes, 3 , 31 Bardi, Piero, 29 , 104 Aproino (character), 213 Barezzi, Barezzo, 105 Aquinas, Saint Th omas, 108 Basile, Bruno, 123 Aratus, 30 , 47 Battistini, Andrea, 70 , 89 , 105 , 109 , 110 , 122–123 , Cicero and Ovid, used by, 29 127 , 132 , 150 , 161 , 172 , 209 Della Porta, used by, 37 Beer, Marina, 19 Lucretius, used by, 29 Bellerus, Johannes, 10 poetry, use of, 4 , 29 , 36 Belo, Francesco, 79 Ptolemy, used by, 29 Bembo, Pietro, 133 , 141 , 145 Archimedes, 34 Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, 34 , 38 , 39 Ariosto, Ludovico, 15 , 19–20 , 55 , 58 , 100 , 105 , Beni, Paolo, 24 118 , 138 , 152 , 159 Beolco, Angelo (Ruzzante), 21 , 45 , 49 , 79

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Beridio d’Arpe, see Bardi, Piero Cavallo, Jo Ann, 19 Bernegger, Matthias, 48 Ceccarelli, Lorenzo, 21 Berni, Francesco, 79 Cecchi, Giovan Maria, 56–57 GG’s library, in, 20 , 21–22 Cervantes, Miguel de, 105–106 , 155 Liceti, used by, 55–57 criticism of literature, 12 , 101 , 103–104 , 108 , Vincenzo Galilei, used by, 22–23 110 , 113–114 , 120 Biagioli, Mario, 24 , 71 criticism of society, 102 , 104 , 107 , 122 , 128 Bible, 3 , 73 verisimilitude, 114–115 Black, Robert, 18 Cesarini, Virginio, 30 , 76 , 203 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 108 , 132 , 137 , 143 , 145 , 192 Cesi, Federico, 10 , 72 , 203 Chiaramonti, used by, 169–170 Chiabrera, Gabriele, 28 Della Porta, used by, 15 Chiaramonti, Scipione, 13 , 76 , 133 , 145 , 162 Delle Colombe, used by, 52–53 , 142 adaptation of Chief World Systems , 164 , GG’s library, in, 27 , 142 165 , 167 Varchi, used by, 132 literary elements, use of, 165–166 , 168–172 Bocchineri, Carlo, 28 Simplicio (character), and, 137 , 162 , 163–165 Boethius, 18 , 39 textual sources, use of, 163 , 167 Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 19 , 27 , 94 , 99 Chiari, Alberto, 26 GG, used by, 88 , 172 chimera, 95 , 116–118 , 121 Bolzoni, Lina, 3 Choerilus of Samos, 31 Bombelli, Rafael, 39 , 186 Christmann, Jacob, 212 book of nature, 26 , 81 , 107 , 110 , 112 , 138 , 143–144 Ciampoli, Giovanni, 30 , 203 Borelli, Giovan Alfonso, 139 Cicero, 22 , 117 , 140 , 143 , 154 , 216 Borro, Girolamo, 133 , 134–136 , 218 Kepler, used by, 41 Bovelles, Charles de, 18 Cigoli, see Cardi, Ludovico Boyle, Robert, 5 , 44 Cinzio, Geraldi, 105 , 157 Bozzi, Paolo, 137 Clavius, Christoph, SJ, 32–34 , 157 Bracciolini, Poggio, 30 , 211 Clucas, Stephen, 131 Brahe, Tycho, 46 , 73 , 76 , 162 , 164 Colapietra, Raﬀ aele, 25 poet, as, 16 , 40 Colombe, Lodovico Delle, see Delle Colombe, poetry, use of, 2 , 16 Lodovico poets, used by, 3 comets, 25 , 30 Brentelle, Bertevello delle, 27 Commandino, Federico, 34 Brescia, 39–40 Controversy on the Comets of 1618, 12 , 50 , Bruno, Giordano, 175, 212 , 218 75–77 , 86 Bucciantini, Massimo, 161 Copernicus, Nicolaus, 16 , 39 , 41 , 42 , 105 , 106 , Buonarroti, Michelangelo, 141 , 144–145 , 169–171 129 , 137 , 175 Burchiello, 22–23 , 79 poesis , 6 Bushnell, Rebecca, 6–7 , 9 simile, use of, 42 , 117 , 167 sources, use of, 7 , 9 , 187 Calamai, Giovanni Battista, 28 see also heliocentrism Calvino, Italo, 172 , 214 , 217 courtliness, 2 , 10–12 , 23–24 , 38–39 , 44 , 65 , 69 , Campanella, Tommaso, 139 71 , 75 , 112 , 166 , 171 Campbell, Mary Baine, 44 Cox, Virginia, 130 , 131 , 136 , 140 Capra, Baldassare, 45–46 , 49 , 60 , 74–75 , 77–79 , Cremonini, Cesare, 45 , 137 85–86 , 143 , 151–152 Antonio Lorenzini (pseud.), as, 45 , 46 , 49 , 82 Carbone, Ludovico, 72 Culler, Jonathan, 162 Cardano, Girolamo, 39 , 77 , 186 Cardi, Ludovico (il Cigoli), 23 d’Aguilon, Franz 207 Caretti, Lanfranco, 20 , 89 , 171 d’Este, Cardinal Don Luigi 54 Caro, Anibal, 27 Dalla Croce, Giovanni Antonio, 78 Casati, Paolo, 172 del Monte, Guidobaldo 34 Castelli, Benedetto, 66–67 , 69 , 162 , 172 della Bella, Stefano, 137 Castiglione, Baldassare, 113 , 130 , 132 Della Casa, Giovanni, 130 Cavalieri, Buonaventura, 171–172 Della Porta, Giovanni Battista

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GG’s library, in, 15 Franciosini, Lorenzo, 102 , 106 poets, use of, 15 , 27 , 30 , 32 , 37–38 Franco, Veronica, 50 Della Terza, Dante, 180 Fuentes, Carlos, 155 , 207 Delle Colombe, Lodovico, 68 , 137 , 162 , 172 courtliness, 54 , 67 , 69 , 101 Galen, 30 , 57 GG’s marginalia, in, 66 , 77–79 , 81–82 , 84 Galilei, Galileo, 175 fl oating bodies, in, 46 , 63–64 , 66 aesthetics of writing, 112–113 , 118 , 120 on the nova of 1604, 45 , 49 Alimberto Mauri (pseud.), as, 46 , 49–55 , 62 , poets, use of, 12 , 49–55 , 62 , 71 , 142 69 , 101 , 162 textual criticism of Mauri, 50 , 51 Ariosto, use of, see Ariosto, Ludovico, GG, Democritus, 30 , 209 used by Demosthenes, 22 , 67 Assayer , 12–13 , 14 , 27 , 30 , 60 , 64 , 71–73 , DeSa Wiggins, Peter, 25 , 172 75–77 , 83–85 , 88–96 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , Descartes, René, 138 108 , 111 , 112–119 , 122–127 , 131 , 137 , 143 , 151 , Dietz Moss, Jean, 58 , 61 , 70 , 72 , 77 , 123 , 131 , 163 , 165 , 169 135 , 138 Boiardo, use of, 94–95 Dolce, Lodovico, 27 Cecco de’ Ronchitti (pseud.), as, 45 , 46 , Don Quixote, 12 , 102–104 , 106–107 , 108 , 49 , 82 129 , 172 Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , 13 , epic literature, criticism of, 108 30 , 75 , 98 , 99–101 , 105 , 111 , 113 , 116 , 118 , 119 , GG, used by, 161 , 172 121 , 127 , 129–159 , 162–170 , 172 GG’s library, in, 28 , 102 , 105 Considerazioni al Tasso , 12 , 24–26 , 73 , 100 library, 102 , 103 , 104 , 109 , 124 dialogue, use of, 133 , 136 , 138 reality, interpretation of, 13 , 101 , 102 , 107 , 109 , De motu , 30 , 160 120–121 , 122 , 127 Epicureanism, 30 , 170 Donati, Paolo, 8 Fable of the Sounds, 103 , 107 , 122–127 , 128 , Doni, Anton Francesco, 87–88 , 119 132 , 145 Dragoncino da Fano, Giambattista, 27 fi ctional narrative, use of, 122–125 , 129 , 140 , Drake, Stillman, 49 , 122 , 137 , 160 148 , 157–159 , 172 Dürer, Albrecht, 142 fl oating bodies, 63–65 , 67 , 75 , 136 foolish fi gures, use of, 103, 121 , 152 Eamon, William, 10 , 44 interpreting scripture, on, 17 , 68 Edgerton, Samuel, 39 lectures on Dante, 6 , 16 , 23 , 147 Ennius, 31 Letter to the Grand Duchess , 108 Epicureanism, 29 , 159 , 170 library, 1 , 9–10 , 11 , 15 , 20–22 , 26–28 , 39 , 55 , Erasmus, 8 84 , 87 , 104–106 , 107 , 132–133 , 142 , 154 Erizzo, Sebastiano, 105 literary terms, use of, 108 Errico, Scipione, 208 marginalia, 5 , 7 , 12 , 24–26 , 45 , 73–76 , 77–80 , Este family, 27 , 58 81–83 , 84–87 , 96 , 109 , 114 , 144–145 , 151 ethos , 12 , 23 , 42 , 44 , 53 , 70 , 72–73 , 112 , 131 marginalia critical reception, 24 , 74 Euclid, 18 , 34 , 39 , 41 , 122 , 134 On Sunspots 61–63 , 69 , 84 , 91 , 136 Eumenius, 133 On the World Systems, see Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Fabricius, David and Johannes, 61 philosopher title, 1 , 46 , 60 Favaro, Antonio, 21 , 26 , 27 , 99 , 100 , 175 , 180 Platonism, 8 , 116 , 127 , 141 , 160 Ferrara, 27 poets generally, use of, 7 , 62 , 66 , 75 , 101 , 125 Ficino, Marsilio, 3 Postille all’Ariosto , 12 , 24–25 Finocchiaro, Maurice, 97 , 131 , 138 rejection of books, 8 fl oating bodies, 10 , 25 , 30 , 45 , 49 , 55 , 60 , 63–67 rejection of poetry, 4 , 14 , 100 , 160 Flora, Ferdinando, 100 rhetoric, 10 , 71–73 , 130 , 131 , 139 Florence, 1 , 26 , 46 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 63 , 66 , 80 , 106 , Starry Messenger , 12 , 28 , 36 , 44 , 58–60 , 71 133 , 141 structure of the natural world, 5 , 6 Folengo, Teofi lo, 19 Tasso, use of, see Tasso, Torquato, GG, Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, 115 used by Foucault, Michel, 204 , 205 textual criticism, use of, 108–110

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Galilei, Galileo (cont.) Piccolomini, used by, 34–35 , 141 Two New Sciences , 13 , 75 , 98 , 105 , 111 , 113 , Vincenzo Galilei, used by, 22 128 , 129 , 133 , 137 , 139 , 146–148 , 151 , 152 , Hooke, Robert, 10 158–161 Horace Virgil, use of, 34 GG, used by, 113 visual arts, use of, 144–145 GG’s library, in, 20–21 writing under students’ names, 66 , 76 Kepler, used by, 41–42 Galilei, Suor Maria Celeste, 21 Piccolomini, used by, 35 Galilei, Vincenzo, 11 , 22–23 , 131 , 218 humanism, 6–7 , 9 , 18 , 38 , 39 , 49 , 123 , 135 , Gassendi, Pierre, 4 , 30 , 35–36 137 , 154 Gelli, Giambattista, 53 Huygens, Christiaan, 115 Genette, Gerard, 208 geocentrism, 2 , 7 , 12 , 32 , 35–36 , 45 , 46 , Index of Prohibited Books, 30 , 158 107–108 , 117 Inquisition, 10 , 27 , 30 , 129 , 130 , 137 , 143 , 158 Germanicus Caesar, 29 intarsiatura , 6 , 7 , 38 , 88 , 116–117 , Gherardini, Niccoló, 21–22 119 , 142–144 Gilbert, William, 152 Isidore of Seville, 56 Giovine, M.V., 151 Glorioso, Giovanni Camillo, 80–81 Jardine, Lisa, 9 , 10 Gordian Knot, 212 Javitch, Daniel, 55 , 92 , 157 Grafton, Anthony, 7–9 , 31 , 40 Jerome, Saint, 154 Grant, Patrick, 3 Jesuit Order, 8 , 33 , 72 , 94 , 157 Grassi, Orazio, 73 , 76–77 , 80 , 86 , 88 , 162 GG, collaboration with, 33 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 87 see also Sarsi, Lothario (pseud.) GG, criticized by, 11 , 76 , 80 , 83 , 86 , 95 , 119 Grazia, Vincenzio di, 66 GG, opponents of, 1 , 76 , 106 Gregorian calendar, 33 Jupiter, moons of, 10 , 12 , 14 , 28 , 58–60 Grendler, Paul, 19 Gualterotti, Raﬀ aele, 28 Kennedy, William, 72 Guazzo, Marco, 27 Kepler, Johannes, 45 , 46 , 76 , 106 , 122 , 132 , Guazzo, Stefano, 130 162 , 175 Guiducci, Mario, 76 , 86 , 162 accomodatio , 42 , 113 Guldino, Paolo, 171–172 allegory, rejection of, 18 , 40 Guzmán de Alfarache , 108 poesis , 6 poet, as, 16 , 40 Hallyn, Fernand, 6 , 25 poetry and the nova of 1604, 46–49 Harriot, Th omas, 61 poetry, use of, 14 , 40–42 , 60 , 89 , 101 Heilbron, J. L., 23 , 25 , 60 , 63 , 71 , 89 , 130 Kirkham, Victoria, 108 heliocentrism, 2, 8 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 16 , 20 , 32 , 36 , 39 , 40 , 42 , 60 , 62 , 66 , 96–98 , 104 , 106 , 109 , Lactantius, 154 129–130 , 131 , 136–137 , 139 , 156 , 158 , 162 Lagalla, Giulio Cesare, 144–145 Henry II, King of France, 15 Lambert, Ladina, 58 Henry IV, King of France, 28 Lampugnani, Agostino, 208 Herodotus, 8 Landino, Cristoforo, 6 Hesiod, 29 , 31 Lauro, Pietro, 27 Hohenber, Herwart von, 42 Lazarillo de Tormes , 27 , 105 , 108 Holywood, John of see Sacrobosco, Johannes Leopardi, Giacomo, 172 Homer, 15 , 18 , 31 , 113 Liceti, Fortunio, 55 , 81 Aratus, used by, 29 GG’s library, in, 55 , 133 Aristotle, used by, 31 poets, use of, 19 , 31–32 , 37 , 55–57 , 62–63 , 80 , GG, used by, 14 , 22 , 51 , 59 , 104 , 111 , 168 101, 142 GG’s library, in, 27 similar to Simplicio, 137 Glorioso, used by, 80–81 Locher, Johann, 164 Liceti, used by, 19 , 55 , 133 Looney, Dennis, 19 natural philosophers, used by, 4 , 19 , 20 , 31 , Lorenzini, Antonio see Cremonini, Cesare, as 34 , 102 Antonio Lorenzini (pseud.)

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Lucan Nozzolini, Tolomeo, 67 Gassendi, used by, 36 Liceti, used by, 55 , 133 Oddi, Mutio, 38 natural philosophers, used by, 2 , 4 , 20 , 31 , 42 , Oedipus, 31 57 , 102 Ophiuchus (constellation), 46 Sacrobosco, used by, 33 Orioli, Bartolomeo, 27 Sarsi, used by, 100 Ovid Vincenzo Galilei, used by, 22 Ariosto, used by, 92 Lucretius, 29 , 31 , 142–143 , 159 Benedetti, used by, 38 accomodatio , 42 , 113 Chiaramonti, used by, 167 GG, used by, 140–141 , 161 , 167 Gassendi, used by, 36 GG’s library, in, 30 , 142 GG, used by, 38 , 143 poetry, use of, 4 GG’s lbrary, in, 20–21 Cesarini, used by, 30 Kepler, used by, 41 Chiaramonti, used by, 167 Liceti, used by, 32 , 55 Piccolomini, used by, 17 Mayr, used by, 60 Piccolomini, used by, 35 Maestlin, Michael, 18 Sacrobosco, used by, 33–34 Magalotti, Lorenzo, 171 Sarsi, used by, 100 Magini, Giovanni Antonio, 39 Vincenzo Galilei, used by, 22 Maldonado, Juan, 103 Malpighi, Marcello, 139 Padua, 12 , 58 Manilius, 4 , 31 , 47 , 143 Padua, University of, 1 , 26 , 42 , 45 , 46 , 55 , 70 , Brahe, used by, 16 72 , 74 , 80 GG, used by, 161 Paduan dialect, 12 , 27 , 45–46 , 49–50 Manzoni, Alessandro, 148 , 172 Palmerín de Oliva, 27 Marino, Giambattista, 28 , 72 , 125 Palmerin of England , 108 Marsh, David, 130 , 131 , 136–137 , 139 , 156 Panofsky, Erwin, 99 Marsili, Cesare, 162 , 172 Pantin, Isabelle, 3 Martial, 55 Paracelsus, 194 Martianus Capella, 164 Paul II, Pope, 117 Marzot, Giulio, 25 pedantry, 77 , 79–81 , 87 , 117 , 119 , 148 , 149 , 151 Mauri, Alimberto, see Galilei, Galileo, Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de, 28 Alimberto Mauri (pseud.), as Pellegrino, Camillo, 77 Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse, 16 Pentheus, 32 Mayr, Simon, 60 Peri, Giovanni Domenico, 28 Medici, Cosimo II de’, 28 , 58–59 , 63–64 , 65 Peripatetics, see Aristotle, followers Medici family, 58–59 , 133 Peterson, Mark, 147 , 187 , 202 Academies, 24 Petrarca, Francesco, 21 , 108 , 145, 161 court environment, 1 , 39 , 58 , 60 , 63 , 136 Della Porta, used by, 15 Mela, Pomponio, 8 Delle Colombe, used by, 52–54 Melanchthon, Philipp, 3 GG, used by, 85 , 141 Mersenne, Marin, 163 , 172 GG’s library, in, 20–21 Micanzio, Fulgenzio, 138 Varchi, used by, 132 mnemotechnics, 4 , 34 Peurbach, Georg von, 17 Monin, Jean Edouard du, 3 Piccolomini, Alessandro, 15 , 216 Morandi, Orazio, 10 accomodatio , 17–18 , 35 , 42 , 113 Muscetta, Carlo, 148 , 214 , 215 relationship of poetry and philosophy, 34–35 , 141 , 167 Naples, 27 , 157 Pisa, University of, 25 , 26 , 30 , 39 , 104 , 160 Naudé, Gabriel, 9 Pitati, Pietro, 41 new star of 1604, see nova of 1604 Plato, 3 , 8 , 39 , 41 , 116 , 127 , 154 , 160–161 , 209 , Newton, Isaac, 106 , 108 210 , 215 Nichomachus, 39 Plautus, 15 nova of 1604, 12 , 44–55 , 62 , 66 , 74 , 75 , 106 , 212 Pleiades (constellation), 35–36

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Pliny the Elder, 2 , 32 , 34 , 56 , 100 , 126 Ariosto, use of, 97–99 , 146–147 Pliny the Younger, 166 epic language, use of, 148 , 152–154 Plutarch, 55 general literary roots, 138 , 153–154 , 155 , 159 poesis , 6 , 7 , 31 , 144 , 157 guide, as, 146–149 , 153 , 154 Pontano, Giovanni, 3 , 47 knight errant, as, 98 , 132 , 153 Porta, Giovanni Battista Della, see Della Porta, metaliterary comments, 121 , 155–158 , 160 Giovanni Battista philosophical roots, 137–139 , 153 , 158 Possanza, D. Mark, 29 philosophy, pleasure of, 113 Presberg, Charles, 126 books, rejection of, 149–150 , 151–152 Proclus, 122 Tasso, use of, 99–101 Propertius, 58 traveler, as, 120 , 141 , 154–155 , 159 , 161 Ptolemy, 29 , 33 , 34 , 39 , 80 , 104 , 106–108 , 117 , 122 Salviati, Filippo, 136 description of tuning, 23 Salviati, Francesco, 145 see also geocentrism Salviati, Leonardo, 77 Pulci, Luca, 27 Sannazaro, Jacopo, 27 Pythagoras, 39 , 41 , 48 Santa Prassede, Rome, 10 Pythagorean Y, 154 Sarrocchi, Margherita, 28–29, 165 Sarsi, Lothario (pseud.), 76 , 86 , 93 , 124 Rabelais, François, 172 , 205 ambiguous language, 82–84 , 90 Raimondi, Ezio, 126–127 , 208 , 209 books, reliance on, 86 , 115 , 120 Rasi, Francesco, 28 comic fi gure, as, 86 , 163 Rauhut, F., 138 Tasso, compared to, 141 Redondi, Pietro, 71 GG, criticized by, 13 , 74–75 , 76 , 77–79 , 92 , Reed, Walter, 108 94 , 110 , 128 , 162 Reeves, Eileen, 3 , 58 , 62 , 73 , 206 epic fi gure, as, 72 , 104 Rhianus, 31 literary nature, 122 Riccobono, Antonio, 72 loquacity, 84 , 94 Rinuccini, Francesco, 159 , 216 pedantry, 79–80 , 81 Rocco, Antonio, 74–75 , 77 , 79 , 81–82 poets, use of, 88 , 95–96 , 142 Rome, 54 , 60 , 61 , 106 , 147 see also Grassi, Orazio Ronchitti, Cecco de’, see Galilei, Galileo, as quixotic fi gure, as, 103 , 111 , 114 , 116 , 121 , 137 Cecco de’ Ronchitti (pseud.) Simplicio, similar to, 152 Rosso Fiorentino (painter), 145 virtue, lack of, 13 , 86 , 88–90 , 91–93 , 112 , Royal Society, 69 117–120 Rubens, Peter Paul, 207 Scaliger, Julius, 48 , 77 Ruzzante, see Beolco, Angelo Scheiner, Christoph, SJ, 61–63 , 84 , 136 , 164 Apelles (pseud.), as, 61–63 , 126 Sacrobosco, Johannes, 17 , 32–34 , 157 Seneca Sagittarius (constellation), 36 , 42 GG’s library, in, 20–21 Sagredo (character), 97 , 116 , 129 , 136 , 138–139 , Kepler, used by, 41 140–148 , 155 , 156 , 160 , 163 , 165 , 172 , 214 , 215 Liceti, used by, 55 beauty of philosophy, 116 , 119 poets, used by, 3 Dantean fi gure, as, 128 , 129 , 132 , 146–148 , Seven against Th ebes , 31 149–150 , 153–154 , 160 Sferza de’ vianti , 105 elements of philosophy, 141–144 , 167 Shakespeare, William, 106 general literary roots, 138 , 141 , 143 , 158–159 Shapin, Steven, 44 , 69 , 86–87 limitations, 145 , 150–151 Shea, William, 9 literary language, 145–146 , 148 Simplicio (character), 96–97 , 100 , 129 , 136 , 139 , poets, use of, 98 , 141 , 143 , 161 148–153 , 155 , 163 , 165 , 172 , 218 ridicule of book culture, 119 books, reliance on, 98 , 109 , 119–120 , 140 , 144 , Sagredo, Giovanfrancesco, 136 149 , 151 , 156 , 164 Saiber, Arielle, 37 dogma, voice of, 121 , 137 , 159 Salvadori, Andrea, 28 see also Chiaramonti, Scipione Salviati (character), 96 , 116 , 129, 136–137 , 139 , epic fi gure, as, 148–149 , 150–151 , 152–153 , 140 , 145 , 148 , 153–161 , 162–163 , 164 , 165 , 159 , 164 167 , 168 , 169 , 205 , 214 , 215 , 218 , 220 , 221 general literary roots, 137–138 , 140, 148

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labyrinth, trapped in, 148 , 160 Unglaub, Jonathan, 26 poetry, use of, 96–97 , 113 , 120 , 148 Uraniborg, 16 quixotic fi gure, as, 13 , 103 , 114 , 121–122 , 128 , Urban VIII, Pope, 76 , 130 , 203 130 , 132 , 139 , 150 , 152–153 , 161 verisimilitude, 116 , 121 Valerio, Luca, 28–29 , 39 , 186 Simplicius (philosopher), 137 Varanini, G., 180 , 209 Sirtori, Girolamo, 60 Varchi, Benedetto, 132 , 134 , 216 Socrates, 131 , 139 , 210 , 215 variatio , 92 Spiller, Elizabeth, 5 , 103 Vasari, Giorgio, 141 , 145 , 170–171 Spinelli, Girolamo, 45 Venier, Maffi o, 50 Spongano, Raff aelo, 25 verisimilitude, 121 , 140 Stigliani, Tommaso, 208 Vickers, Brian, 4 , 10 Strabo, 55 Vico, Giambattista, 17 Strozzi, Giulio, 28 Vinta, Belisario, 59 Suidas lexicon , 95 Virgil, 2 , 15 , 18 , 30 , 36 , 58 , 71 , 146 , 155 sunspots, 10 , 25 , 45 , 46 , 60–63 , 71 , 75 , 112 , 126 Agrippa, used by, 37 Clavius, used by, 33 Tacitus, 16 Della Porta, used by, 30 , 32 , 37 Tartaglia, Niccolò, 201 Delle Colombe, used by, 53 courtly concerns, 39–40 Gassendi, used by, 36 dialogue characters, 133–134 GG, used by, 14 , 21 , 22 , 27 , 34 , 38 , 59 , 143 , emotional use of poets, 39 , 101 148 , 168 Tasso, Bernardo, 27 , 157 GG’s library, in, 20–21 , 27 Tasso, Torquato, 7 , 20 , 79 , 105 , 157 Glorioso, used by, 80–81 Chiaramonti, used by, 13 , 166 , 168 , Kepler, used by, 41 , 47–49 170–171 Liceti, used by, 31–32 , 37 , 55–56 , 133 Delle Colombe, used by, 51–53 , 54 , 62 , Manilius, used by, 31 69 , 71 , 77 natural philosophers, used by, 2 , 4 , 14 , 20 , Gerusalemme liberata , 1 , 24 , 28 , 97 31–32 , 34 , 42 , 48 , 102 GG, criticized by, 11 , 25–26 , 73–74 , 75 , Piccolomini, used by, 34–35 , 141 77–79 , 84–85 , 103 , 112 , 114–115 , 117 , 119 , Pythagoreans, used by, 48 141 , 143 , 151 Sacrobosco, used by, 33–34 GG, used by, 99–101 , 172 Sarsi, used by, 100 GG’s library, in, 27 Vincenzo Galilei, used by, 22 Tassoni, Alessandro, 104–105 , 106 vituperatio , 73 , 77–79 , 80 Petrarch, edition of used by GG, 21 Viviani, Vincenzo, 20–21 , 216 telescope development, 11 , 28 , 46 , 58 , 112 , 213 Welser, Marc, 61 discoveries with, 12 , 14 , 33 , 45 , 106 , 144 Westfall, Richard, 58 implications, 28 , 59–60 , 61 , 90 , 208 Witelo, 39 Terence, 41 Wlassics, Tibor, 24–25 , 70 , 151 Terracina, Laura, 19 world on paper, 8 , 65 , 67 , 102 , 106 , 107–108 , Th ebes, 31 , 32 110–111 , 115 , 122 , 127 , 149–151 , 155 Th yestes, 31 Titan, 16 , 48 Yates, Francis, 3 Turin, 134 Turpin, 95 Zarlino, Gioseff o, 22–23