Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Record of Galileo's Trial: Marino Marini; 3. The Record of Galileo's Trial: Theiner; 4. The Minutes of the Council of Trent; 5. The Opening of the Archives; 6. The Borgia Pope; 7. Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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This important study of how new attitudes and techniques of history affected the Church will interest documentalists and general readers as well as ecclesiastical and general historians.