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Roman Inquisition

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Noun1.Roman Inquisition - an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants; "it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial"


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He was stripped naked and burned at the stake in Campo de' Fiori on February 17, 1600, after a lengthy trial by the Roman Inquisition.
9780813927473 Witchcraft and the papacy; an account drawing on the formerly secret records of the Roman Inquisition.
Modern hindsight tells us the great cosmological controversy of the seventeenth century revolved around Galileo Galilei, from his observations with the telescope in 1610 to his condemnation for heresy by the Roman Inquisition in 1633.
 
 
 
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