''Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene in perpuosito de la stella Nuova'' (''Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti of

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ridiculing the views of an aspiring Aristotelian philosopher, Antonio Lorenzini da Montepulciano, on the nature and properties of

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, which had appeared in October 1604. The pseudonymous ''Dialogue'' was written in the coarse language of a rustic Paduan dialect, and first published in about March, 1605, in

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. A second edition was published later the same year in

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. Antonio Favaro republished the contents of the pamphlet in its original language in 1881, with annotations and a commentary in Italian. He republished it again in Volume 2 of the ''National Edition'' of Galileo's works in 1891, along with a translation into standard Italian. An English translation was published by

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Drake (

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, pp.33–53) in 1976. Scholars agree that the pamphlet was written either by

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or one of his followers, Girolamo Spinelli, or by both in collaboration, but do not agree on the extent of the contribution—if any—made by each of them to its composition.

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