• don@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    According to the wiki:

    Tozzetti later wrote that Capponi’s explanation for taking the two fingers as relics was “because Galileo wrote so many beautiful things with them.”

    Galileo’s middle finger

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      8 days ago

      It wasn’t taken with that meaning in mind (which didn’t exist at the time), but sure it’s a curious coincidence.