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CAMPANELLA, Tommaso (1568-1639). Apologia pro Galileo. Frankfurt: E. Kempfer for G. Tampachius, 1622. 4° (223 x 168mm). Typographical title without the allegorical engraved surround found in some copies, without the final blank. (Evidence of stamp removed from title, some dampstaining to beginning, occasional browning and spotting.) Modern scarlet leather, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (covers slightly scuffed, spine lightly sunned, evidence of slip removed from rear pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of this early defence of Galileo's espousal of the Copernican system. It was written at the height of the Copernican controversy in 1616, the year which saw the suspension of De revolutionibus and the initial censuring of Galileo. Campanella wrote it during his long period of imprisonment in Naples; he was later to remind Galileo that 'my writing alone is printed in your defence, and not that of others' (Ernst). The present work is recognized as rare by Brunet and 'rarissimo' by Riccardi. Brunet I 1520; Cinti 150 (71); De Caro 58; Drake, Galileo at Work, 260; G. Ernst, 'Astrology and Prophecy in Campanella and Galileo', Culture and Cosmos, 7.1 (2003), 21; Riccardi I 217.
FIRST EDITION of this early defence of Galileo's espousal of the Copernican system. It was written at the height of the Copernican controversy in 1616, the year which saw the suspension of De revolutionibus and the initial censuring of Galileo. Campanella wrote it during his long period of imprisonment in Naples; he was later to remind Galileo that 'my writing alone is printed in your defence, and not that of others' (Ernst). The present work is recognized as rare by Brunet and 'rarissimo' by Riccardi. Brunet I 1520; Cinti 150 (71); De Caro 58; Drake, Galileo at Work, 260; G. Ernst, 'Astrology and Prophecy in Campanella and Galileo', Culture and Cosmos, 7.1 (2003), 21; Riccardi I 217.