Maffeo Barberini

The same year Maffeo Barberini, Galileo's supporter and friend, was elected Pope Urban VIII.

Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

Even Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, who would later, as Pope Urban VIII, condemn him, once dedicated a poem to Galileo.

Galileo Still Sends Church Spinning 2008

When Galileo first published supporting evidence for the Copernican heliocentric theory, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini sent him a letter of congratulations.

Archive 2008-01-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

When Galileo first published supporting evidence for the Copernican heliocentric theory, Cardinal Maffeo Barberini sent him a letter of congratulations.

The Galileo Myth de Brantigny........................ 2008

(Maffeo Barberini), who sat in the pontifical chair from 1623 to 1644, and finished by Bernini in 1640.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

August Cardinal Maffeo Barberini received fifty votes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Agostino Favorini (1431), General of the Augustinians, a learned writer, and Maffeo Barberini (1604), later Urban VIII.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Other bishops were: Berardo Erubi (1448), afterwards cardinal, who played an important part in the government of the church; Alessandro Farnese (1555); Alfonso Visconti (1601), founder of the seminary, which was enlarged by his successor Maffeo Barberini

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Maffeo Barberini, born at Florence in April, 1568; elected pope, 6

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

On the death of Paul V. in 1623, Maffeo Barberini was elected Pope, as Urban VIII.

Great Astronomers 1876