Galilei, Galileo

Dialogo ... dove ... si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo ... Accresciuta di una lettera dello stesso e di vari Trattati di più Autori, il quale si veggono nel fine del Libro. Florence [Naples]: 1710



Large paper copy, 4to (11 1/8 x 8 ¾ in.; 282 x 223 mm, uncut). Title printed in red and black with engraved emblem and motto "Il piu bel fior ne coglie" [adopted from Petrarch by the Accademia della Crusca], second title with woodcut device, woodcut diagrams in text; old ownership entry of a Florentine library obscured leaving a light stain on title, some marginal soiling in first few leaves, dampstain in lower margin of  fifth leaf, a few light stains on leaves g2-3. Modern vellum, manuscript title on spine.

Cinti 168; Carli-Favaro 99 (413); Riccardi I:512

Second Italian edition of his Dialogue on Two Chief World Systems (1632) which had been placed on the Index the year of the author's conviction and confinement to house arrest. No Italian edition followed until this one of 1710, published clandestinely in Naples. It contains two other works attempting to rationalize the conflict between Copernicus's theory and the Bible: Foscarini's Letter (originally published 1615) and Galileo's Lettera alla Granduchessa di Toscana (composed in 1615, first published 1636).

A splendid large copy with extraordinary margins.