in the church of Santa
Croce:--

GALILAEO GALILAEI Florentino,
Philosopho et Geometrae vere lynceo,
Naturae Oedipo,
Mirabilium semper inventorum machinatori,
Qui inconcessa adhuc mortalibus gloria
Caelorum provincias auxit
Et universo dedit incrementum:
Non enim vitreos spherarum orbes
Fragilesque stellas conflavit:
Sed aeterna mundi corpore
Mediceae beneficentiae dedicavit,
Cujus inextincta gloriae cupiditas
Ut oculos nationum
Saeculorumque omnium
Videre doceret,
Proprios impendit oculos.
Cum jam nil amplius haberet natura
Quod ipse videret.
Cujus inventa vix intra rerum limites comprehensa
Firmamentum ipsum non solum continet,
Sed etiam recipit.
Qui relictis tot scientiarum monumentis
Plura secum tulit, quam reliquit.
Gravi enim
Sed nondum affecta senectute,
Novis contemplationibus
Majorem gloriam affectans
Inexplebilem sapientiae animam
Immaturo nobis obitu
Exhalavit
Anno Domini
MCXLII.
AEtatis suae
LXXVIII.

At his death, in 1703, Viviani purchased his property, with the charge
of erecting a monument over Galileo's remains and his own. This design
was not carried into effect till 1737, at the expense of the family of
Nelli, when both their bodies were disinterred, and removed to the site
of the splendid monument which now covers them. This monument contains
the bust of Galileo, with figures of Geometry and Astronomy. It was
designed by Giulio Foggini. Galileo's bust was executed by Giovanni
Battista Foggini; the figure of Astronomy by Vincenzio Foggini, his son;
and that of Geometry by Girolamo Ticciati.

Galileo's house at Arcetri still remains. In 1821 it belonged to one
Signor Alimari, having been preserved in the state in which it was left
by Galileo; it stands very near the convent of St Matthew, and about a
mile to the S. E. of Florence. An inscription by Nelli, over the door of