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Negretti, a sleep-walker, sometimes carried a candle about with him as if to furnish him light in his employment, but when a bottle was substituted he carried it, fancying that he had the candle. Another somnambulist, Castelli, was found by Dr. Sloane translating Italian and French and looking out words in his dictionary.
Galileo loses his favourite Daughter He falls into a state of melancholy and ill health Is allowed to go to Florence for its recovery in 1638 But is prevented from leaving his House or receiving his Friends His friend Castelli permitted to visit him in the presence of an Officer of the Inquisition He composes his celebrated Dialogues on Local Motion Discovers the Moon's Libration Loses the sight of one Eye The other Eye attacked by the same Disease Is struck blind Negociates with the Dutch Government respecting his Method of finding the Longitude He is allowed free intercourse with his Friends His Illness and Death in 1642 His Epitaph His Social, Moral, and Scientific Character.
Under his portrait, which he gave me, he wrote the following little improvised verse in the style so peculiarly his own: This portrait shall ever with loving eyes greet thee, From far shall recall the smile of thy friend; For thou, dearest Dane, 'tis a pleasure to meet thee, Thou art one to be loved and esteemed to the end. Castelli introduced me to Seidl and Bauernfeld.
After a little further climbing, the summit of the range was pierced, and the lovely Riviera of the Castelli lay spread before us far below.
Adrian had gone close to the map with his companions and now interrupted the Beggar by laughing loudly. "What is it, curly-head?" asked the latter. "Look, look!" cried the boy, "the great General Valdez has immortalized himself here, and there is his name too. Listen, listen! The rector would hang a placard with the word donkey round his neck, for he has written: 'Castelli parvi!
Although this request was denied, Ferdinand again interposed, and transmitted a letter to his ambassador, recommending the admission of Campanella and Castelli into the congregation of ecclesiastics by whom Galileo was to be judged. Circumstances, however, rendered it prudent to withhold this letter.
When he went in, Castelli saw a litter of torn-up papers; others were burning on the hearth. He said that he knew no one was to pass and that was why he had come. Cavour stared at him in silence. Then he went on, "Must I believe that Count Cavour will desert the camp on the eve of battle; that he will abandon us all?"
His friend, Father Castelli, deplores the calamity in the same tone of pathetic sublimity: "The noblest eye," says he, "which nature ever made, is darkened; an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare powers, that it may truly be said to have seen more than the eyes of all that are gone, and to have opened the eyes of all that are to come."
They might be established between Home and Montepoli, Rome and Civita Castellana, in the valley of Ceprano, on the hills extending round the Castelli of Rome, where they would breathe an air as wholesome as that of their own mountains; for fever does not always spare them even there.
One man, Castelli, declined to be used for the purpose of entrapping Galileo, but others there were who loaned themselves to the plan. In Sixteen Hundred Sixteen, Galileo received a formal summons from Pope Paul the Fifth to come to Rome and purge himself of heresies that he had expressed in letters which were then in the hands of the Inquisition.
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