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• Resource Type: Book
• ISBN: 0-8027-1343-2
• Print Status: In Print
• Chapters: 33
• Pages: 420
• Suggested Grade Level: 7th - 12th
• Geographical Setting: Italy
• Historical Setting: 1564 - 1737
• Subjects: History, Science
• Publisher: Walker Publishing
• Copyright: 1999

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• 1 — She who was so precious to you
• 2 — This grand book the universe
• 3 — Bright stars speak of your virtues
• 4 — To have the truth seen and recognized
• 5 — In the very face of the sun
• 6 — Observant executrix of God's commands
• 7 — The malice of my persecutors
• 8 — Conjecture here among shadows
• 9 — How our father is favored
• 10 — To busy myself in your service
• 11 — What we require above all else
• 12 — Because of our zeal
• 13 — Through my memory of their eloquence
• 14 — A small and trifling body
• 15 — On the right path, by the grace of God
• 16 — The tempest of our many torments
• 17 — While seeking to immortalize your fame
• 18 — Since the Lord chastises us with these whips
• 19 — The hope of having you always near
• 20 — That I should be begged to publish such a work
• 21 — How anxiously I live, awaiting word from you
• 22 — In the chambers of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
• 23 — Vainglorious ambition, pure ignorance, and inadvertence
• 24 — Faith vested in the miraculous Madonna of Impruneta
• 25 — Judgment passed on your book and your person
• 26 — Not knowing how to refuse him the keys
• 27 — Terrible destruction on the feast of San Lorenzo
• 28 — Recitation of the penitential psalms
• 29 — The book of life, or A prophet accepted in his own land
• 30 — My soul and its longing
• 31 — Until I have this from your lips
• 32 — As I struggle to understand
• 33 — The memory of the sweetnesses
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