Re: Re: VMs: Source of 15449

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jan,

you wrote:

> Hello Rene, 
> 
> that surely cannot be Baresh's  thesis  written
> while he was at La Sapienza, since he started his
> studies there in 1605, as he claims in his letter to
>  Kircher.  Leopold I Habsburg lived * June 9, 1640,
> + May 5, 1705.
> 
> Interestingly enough, it may  be the same  Leopold
> to whom Galileo wrote his  letter in 1618, while
> Leopold was still the Archduke. 
>
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/letterleopold.html

The Italian text of the work reads:

Soli Deo Gloria

Compendiosa Spiegazione, della annessa Figura, 
p[er] delucidazione del [cut off]
delli veri Adepti Filosofi, nel hermetica scienza.
Al piiss[i]mo e divino spirito del sempre
Augus[tissi]mo Imperatore Leopol [cut off]

Then it starts in Latin but changes back to Italian.

Anyway, this is either a reference to a Leopold
who is already emperor, or perhaps even after
his death. The change in language could be 
an indication that the author's native language was
perhaps Italian.

Cheers, Rene


		
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