![]() ![]() For an Italian ecclesiastic in the 1600s, this was a rare perception indeed. Pallavicino did not report what, if anything, he discovered as a result, but surely the experience reinforced his notion that religion and science were symbiotic. ![]() As he wrote to one friend, his passion for studying specimens under a microscope inspired him at least once to put the eucharistic host under the lens to examine it, in an episode alluded to by Knebel. An early supporter of the astronomer Galileo Galilei, who would eventually be tried by the Inquisition, Pallavicino remained devoted to science. This intellectual flexibility combined with intense faith was unusual in his era. Sforza Pallavicino by Maarten Delbeke (ed.) ![]()
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