Cardinal barberini and galileo ati

          Because Bellarmine and Barberini formed a group of cardinals who were like a scientific perestroika in the Church at the time.

          Diagrams and calculations, none were prohibited at the time....

          Paolo Sarpi

          Pope Urban VIII
          Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644)

          The Barberini were a powerful family, with branches in Rome and Florence, which had produced several cardinals up to that point.

          Maffeo was born into the Florentine branch of the family in 1568. His father died when Maffeo was only three years old; his mother insisted that he be educated by the Jesuits--first in Florence, and later in Rome at the Jesuit Collegio Romano.

          Here he lived with his uncle, Francesco Barberini, who held the high church office of Protonotary Apostolic.

          Galileo has a conversation with the two cardinals Bellarmin and Barberini in the party.

        1. Galileo has a conversation with the two cardinals Bellarmin and Barberini in the party.
        2. Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII.
        3. Diagrams and calculations, none were prohibited at the time.
        4. Summoned to Bellarmino's apartment, in the presence of Seghizzi, other witnesses and a notary, Galileo got a warning from the cardinal.
        5. He was a believing Catholic with two daughters who had become nuns; he was a personal friend of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (destined to become.

          6. In 1589 he took the degree of doctor of law from the University of Pisa.

          Maffeo Barberini' s rise in the church hierarchy was rapid. In 1601 he served as papal legate to the court of Henri IV, king of France; in 1604 he became archbishop of Nazareth (an office he obviously fulfilled in absentia since the Holy Land was under Moslem rule) and took up the post of papal nuncio (lit.

          messenger, the papal legate permanently accredited to a civil