Gærtner, II. 15.
Gassendi, II. 15.
Galileo, the history of his life and
labours, pregnant with a peculiar
interest to the general reader, as
well as the philosopher, II. 1.
His birth and parentage, 2. His
early years spent in the construction
of instruments and pieces of
machinery, which were calculated
chiefly to amuse himself and his
schoolfellows, 2. Music, drawing,
and painting, the occupations
of his leisure hours, 3. Papers
from the elementary works of
geometry to the writings of Archimedes,
3. Writes an essay on
the hydrostatical balance, 3. Engaged
to investigate the centre
of gravity in solid bodies, 4.
Appointed lecturer on mathematics
at Pisa, 4. His reiterated
and successful attacks against the
followers and doctrines of Aristotle,
5. Resigns his professorship
at Pisa, and is appointed to
fill the chair of mathematics in
the university of Padua, 6.
Obliged to add to his income by
the labours of his pen, 6. His
own account of his conversion to
the Copernican system of philosophy,
7. Teaches the Ptolemaic
out of compliance with the popular
feeling, after he had convinced
himself of the truth of
the Copernican doctrines, 8. His
reputation widely extended over
Europe, 9. Completes the first
period of his engagement at
Padua, and is re-elected for other
six years with an increased
salary of 320 florins, 9. His observations
on the new star, which
attracted the notice of astronomers
in 1604, 10. Again appointed
to the professorship at
Padua, with an augmented stipend
of 520 florins, 10. His attention
occupied with the examination
of the properties of the
loadstone, 10. In 1607, he first
directs his telescope to the heavens,
11. Solicited by Cosmo de'
Medici to return to Padua, 12.
The professorship conferred on
him for life, and his salary raised
to 1000 florins, 13. Invents that
form of telescope which still
bears his name, 14. Interest
which the exhibition of the
telescope excited at Venice, 15.
The first celestial object to which
he applied it, was the moon, 15.
His observations on the moon,
16. His examination of the fixed
stars and the planets, 17. His
discovery of the Medicean stars,
18. Dedicated his work, entitled
the "Sidereal Messenger," to
Cosmo de' Medici, 19. Reception
which his discoveries met
with, 20. Resigns his professorship
at Padua, and takes up his
residence at Florence as philosopher
and principal mathematician
to the grand duke of Tuscany, 21.
The first and sole discoverer of
Jupiter and satellites, 22. Excites
the curiosity of astronomers by
the publication of his first
enigma, 23. Visits Rome, where
he is received with honour by
princes, cardinals, and prelates,
24. Erects his telescope in the
Quirinal Gardens, 24. His solar
observations, 26. Publishes his
discourse on floating bodies,
chiefly remarkable as a specimen
of the sagacity and intellectual
power of its author, 28. His
discoveries place him at the
head of the great men of his age,
29. His letter to his friend and
pupil, the abbé Castelli, to prove
that the Scriptures were not
intended to teach us science
and philosophy, 31. Publishes a
longer letter, of seventy pages, defending
and illustrating his former
views respecting the influence
of scriptural language on
the two contending systems, 32.
Summoned before the inquisition,
to answer for the heretical
doctrines which he published, 33.
Acquitted on condition that he
renounced the obnoxious doctrines,
and pledged himself that
he would neither teach, defend,
nor publish them in future, 33.
His controversial discussion at
Rome, 34. Discovers a method
of finding the longitude at sea,
35. Unable, from illness, to partake
in the general interest excited
by the three comets, which
visited our system in 1618, 36.
Replies to the attack of Oratio
Grassi, in a volume entitled "Il
Saggiatore," 37. Undertakes a
journey to Rome, to congratulate
his friend Barberini upon his
elevation to the papal chair, 38.
Endeavours to bespeak the good
will of the cardinal towards the
Copernican system, 39. His
theory of the tides, 40. Ties
which bound him to the Romish
hierarchy, 41. Publishes a work,
demonstrating the Copernican
system, 42. Influence of this
work on the public mind, 43.
Summoned a second time before
the inquisition, 45. His trial, 46.
His defence, 47. Sentence of the
court, 49. His abjuration of his
doctrines, 50. The sentence of
abjuration read at several universities,
and his friends and his
disciples summoned to witness
the public degradation of their
master, 52. Returns to Tuscany,
58. His melancholy and indisposition,
53. Obtains leave from
the pope to return to Florence,
54. Publishes his "Dialogues on
Local Motion," 55. Discovers
the moon's diurnal liberation, 55.
Becomes totally blind, 56. Renieri
undertakes to arrange and
complete his observations and
calculations, 57. His death, 58.
The inquisition disputes his
right of making a will, and of
being buried in consecrated
ground, 58. His character as a
man of science, and as a member
of the social circle, 60. His
person, 61.
Gamba, Marina, II. 10.
Gano, of Mayence, I. 170.
Garcia Sanchez, remarks on his
poetry, III. 13.
Garibay, Esteban de, III. 162.
Gavasa, Alberto, III. 231.
Geraldi, Cinthio, I. 28.
Giacomo, king of Majorca, I. 147.
Gil, Juan, III. 140.
Gilbert, Dr., II. 11.
Giovanni, queen of Naples, I. 91.
Goldoni, Carlo, his birth and parentage,
II. 213. His predilection
for the drama, 214. Placed at
school at Perugia, 215. Taken
by his father to Rimini, to pursue
his studies under a celebrated
professor, 216. Leaves Rimini
with a company of strolling
comedians, 217. Arrives at
Chiozza; his dislike to the medical
profession, 218. Repairs to
Venice to study law under his
uncle, 219. Enters the university
of Pavia, 220. Expelled the
college for writing a satire; accompanies
his father to Udine,
where he studies law under an
eminent advocate, 221. Proceeds
to Modena to pursue his
legal studies, 222. His letter to
his parents, declaring his resolve
of entering the order of Capuchin
monks, 223. Returns to Chiozza,
cured of every wish to shut himself
up in a cloister, 223. Appointed
to a situation under government,
224. His account of
his first love, 224. Enters the profession
of barrister at Venice,
225. Incident which occurred to
destroy his prospects, 226. Leaves
Venice; obtains letters of introduction
at Milan, 227. Failure
of his opera, entitled "Amalasunta,"
228. Appointed gentleman
in the palace of signor
Bartolini, 229. Dismissed from
his situation; sets out for Modena,
where his mother resided,
230. Attacked by robbers on his
journey, 231. Installed poet to
the theatrical company at Venice;
success of his "Belisarius," 232.
Accompanies the manager to
Genoa and Florence, 233. His
marriage, 233. Commences his
long meditated reform of the
Italian theatre, 234. Obtains the
Genoese consulship at Venice,
235. Embarks for Bologna; his
journey full of accidents by flood
and field, 236. Returns to Rimini,
237. Becomes a pleader
once again, and for three years
practices at the Pisan bar, 238.
Outline of his tragedy, entitled
"La Donna di Garbo," 239. His
drama on the subject of Richardson's
novel of "Pamela," 240.
Writes sixteen comedies in the
course of one season, 241. His
illness occasioned by his extraordinary
exertion, 242. Becomes
the censor of the manners and
satirist of the follies of his country,
242. Outline of his comedies,
243. Invited to Rome during
the carnival, 244. Receives an
offer from the French court of an
engagement for two years, on
very advantageous terms, 245.
His debût as an author in the
French capital, 246. His death,
in the eighty-fifth year of his
age, 246.
Gongora, don Luis de, III. 243. His
birth, parentage, and early education,
243. His death, in the
sixty-sixth year of his age, 244.
His person, 245. Specimen of
his style, 246. Lope de Vega,
essay upon him and his system,
248.
Gonzaga, cardinal, I. 35.
Gori, Francesco, II. 278.
Grassi, Oratio, II. 37.
Gravina, Vincenzo, the celebrated
jurisconsult, II. 185.
Grazia, M. Vincenzo di, II. 28.
Gualdo, Paolo, II. 14.
Guarini, Battista, his birth, parentage,
and early education, II.
82. Named counsellor and secretary
of state by Alfonso, duke of
Ferrara, 83. Sent by him to negotiate
his election to the Polish
throne; his letter to his wife on
the subject, 83. His letter to a
friend on the subject of his "Pastor
Fido," 87. Extract from Fanshawe's
translation of the poem,
the "Pastor Fido," the principal
monument of his poetic genius,
88. Review of the poem looked
on as second only to Tasso among
the poets of the age, 91. Returns
to his post at court; sent on a
mission to Umbria and Milan, 92.
His pecuniary difficulties and
domestic afflictions; leaves Ferrara
privately and in haste, 93.
Establishes himself at Florence,
where he is honourably received
by the grand duke Ferdinand, 94.
His irascible temper, 94. His
death, in the seventy-fifth year
of his age, 95.
Gubbio, Busone da, I. 27.
Guevara, Antonio de, III. 147.
Guicciardini, Francesco, his birth
and parentage, II. 63. At an
early age takes a doctor's degree
in law; and is appointed by the
government to read the Institute
in the university of Florence, 61.
His marriage, 64. Sent by the
republic as ambassador to Ferdinand,
king of Aragon, 65.
Sent to receive the pope at Cortona,
65. Named by the pope
consistorial advocate, also governor
of Reggio and Modena,
66. Prudence, firmness, and
severity, the characteristics of
his administration, 67. Named
lieutenant general of the pontifical
army in the ecclesiastical
states, 67. Enters, with all the
zeal of personal resentment, into
the cause of the Medici, 69.
Named by the pope governor of
Bologna, 70. Retires from the
government on the death of Clement
VII., 71. Withdraws himself
from public life, and retires
to his country seat at Montici,
72. Solicited by Paul III. to leave
his retreat, and to enter again on
public life, 73. His death, 73.
His person and character, 74.
Guiducci, Marco, an astronomer of
Florence, II. 36.