Memorials of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 : Portraits and paintings, medals and medallions, busts and statues, monuments and mural inscriptions / by J.J. Fahie ; with 20 portraits and 42 other illustrations.

  • Fahie, J. J. (John Joseph), 1846-1934.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Memorials of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 : Portraits and paintings, medals and medallions, busts and statues, monuments and mural inscriptions / by J.J. Fahie ; with 20 portraits and 42 other illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T53 of delegates from all teaching institutions of all grades and denominations—per condurre a fine l’opera di glorificazione delle scienza, di concordia, e di pace. The Committee was to be under the honorary presidency of an Italian and a French scientist, and, over all, the President of the Paris Municipal Council. The Great War and its political and financial sequalae have interfered with this noble project, but let us hope that it will be revived in happier days—“di concordia c di pace.”1 3. Not content with Demi’s colossal statue in their University, the Pisans have been clamouring for many years for a monument worthy of their famous townsman, to be erected in some public place and by public subscription. But again the war and its financial stresses had caused the project to be laid aside. Now the agitation has been resumed, and seems likely to lead to results in the near future. A telegram in “The Times” of May 10th, 1922, explains the situation—• Milan, May 8th. “The question of erecting at Pisa a suitable monument in honour of Galileo, a native of the town, has for many years exercised the minds of the local authorities. Owing, however, to their rather modest financial resources, the administration has never been able to vote a sufficiently large sum of money to cover the cost of such a memorial as would do full honour to the memory of their world-famous citizen. “Recently Cardinal Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, has offered to provide the necessary funds. The Municipal Council, however, while thanking the Cardinal for his generous offer, consider they must decline it, because they feel that it rests with the town, and not with an individual, to honour its illustrious son. Now, however, the question will be decided. A fund is being devoted 1 II Monumento di Galileo a Parigi, in “ Nuova Antologia,” July 16th, 1900, p. 211.