I, Galileo by Bonnie Christensen

Author:Bonnie Christensen [Christensen, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307974402
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-06-12T07:00:00+00:00

But what of the copies sent to Rome? No word. I waited and worried. Would the pope be pleased? Six long months passed.

Then I received the terrible news. A group of my enemies had convinced the pope I’d represented him as a fool in the Dialogue. Nothing could have been farther from my intent. Nevertheless, the pope was outraged. Distribution of my book was halted immediately.

The skies grew dark and closed in around me.

A month later, I was summoned to Rome to stand trial before the Church’s Inquisition. My crime? Heresy and following Copernicus.

My sentence? Imprisonment for the rest of my days, within the walls of my house. All my writings were banned. The final blow came when the Inquisition posted copies of my sentence on walls throughout the cities of Europe. The humiliation was overwhelming.

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