The Starry Messenger

The Most Excellent Lords Chiefs of the Excellent Council of Ten The Council of Ten was one of the primary governing bodies of the Venetian Republic, responsible for state security and censorship. undersigned, having received word from the Lords Reformers of the University of Padua The 'Reformatori' were the Venetian officials overseeing educational and intellectual affairs. by the report of the two deputies assigned to this task—namely, the Reverend Father Inquisitor and the Distinguished Secretary of the Senate, Giovanni Meraviglia—who have testified under oath that in the book entitled THE STARRY MESSENGER original: "SYDEREVS NVNCIVS", etc., by Master Galileo Galilei, nothing is found contrary to the Holy Catholic Faith, to Princes, or to good morals, and that it is worthy of printing, do hereby grant license that it may be printed in this City.

Lord Marc'Antonio Valaresso
Lord Nicolò Bon } Chiefs of the Excellent Council of Ten.
Lord Lunardo Marcello

March 8, 1610. Registered in the book on page 39.