1. Returned to Rome for printing approval

    · Residence of the Tuscan ambassador, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

    Returned to Rome for printing approval
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    Galileo reached Rome and lodged with Tuscan ambassador Francesco Niccolini while seeking authorization to print the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Villa Medici served as the Tuscan ambassador's Roman residence; the archive wording itself identifies it as the ambassador's palace.

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