 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. (II, 537-38) Honorific... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...had another memorable encounter with an international celebrity. 'There it was', he reported later, 'that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.'" It may have... | |
 | Eileen Reeves - Art - 1997 - 340 pages
...212, 214-215. 40. Milton was in Florence in the summer of 1638, and it was presumably then that he "found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought," as he related... | |
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There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. 
