Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621)
1He then told me a memorable circumstance concerning the great Cardinal Bellarmine of saintly memory.
2Old Cardinal Bellarmine roared like a lion.
3Even so great a man as Cardinal Bellarmine exerted himself in vain against this new tide of unreason.
4The greatest thinker of his time journeyed to Rome and faced the greatest theologian of his day, Cardinal Bellarmine.
5And Galileo accordingly, in dread of prison, appeared before Cardinal Bellarmine and declared that he would renounce the doctrines he had defended.