Karl von Gebler’s Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia was the first history of the trial written from the actual Vatican documents: the injunction of 1616, the Dialogue’s licensing, the summons, the interrogations and the abjuration, reconstructed with a scholar’s care for what the records really say.
Written by a dying young Austrian historian and still cited today, it replaced legend with evidence. Download the free EPUB for the Galileo affair as the documents tell it.