On March 12, 1610, Galileo wrote his dedicatory letter to the Duke of Tuscany, and the next day sent a copy to the Grand Duke, hoping to obtain the Grand Duke ’ s support as quickly as possible.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

Pope added to the second edition the following dedicatory letter:

The Arte of English Poesie was entered at Stationers ' Hall in 1588, and published in the following year with a dedicatory letter to Lord Burghley written by the printer Richard Field, who professed ignorance of the writer's name and position.

In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis ( 1593 ), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to write a " graver work ".

) printed in front of Copernicus ' preface which was a dedicatory letter to Pope Paul III and which kept the title " Praefatio authoris " ( to acknowledge that the unsigned letter was not by the book's author ).

This history of the Council of Trent appeared in Italian, with an anti-Roman title page and letter dedicatory to James I.

Discourses on Livy comprises a dedicatory letter and three books with 142 numbered chapters.

In the Lent of 358, Basil with many bishops was holding the dedicatory feast of a new church he had built at Ancyra, when he received a letter from George of Laodicea, relating how Eudoxius had approved of Aëtius, and begging Macedonius of Constantinople, Basil and the rest of the assembled bishops to decree the expulsion of Eudoxius and his followers from Antioch, else that great see were lost.

He explained his reasons for doing so in a dedicatory letter to his children, dated November 1849, which was inserted at the beginning of the book:

Among his original compositions Musurus wrote a dedicatory epigram for Zacharias Kallierges ' edition of the Etymologicum Magnum, in which he praised the genius of the Cretans.

1555 ), revised for press Knox's work on predestination, which was published at Geneva in 1560, and contributed a dedicatory epistle to Christopher Goodman's ‘ How Superior Powers ought to be obeyed ’ ( Geneva, 1558 ), in which views similar to Knox's were adopted with regard to the ‘ regiment of women .’

Although he was primarily associated with Mercury, Visucius was also sometimes linked to the Roman god Mars, as a dedicatory inscription to " Mars Visucius " and Visucia, Visicius ' female counterpart, was found in Gaul.

The name also appears on a dedicatory cippus from Civita d ' Antino, in the Umbrian Iguvine Tablets, and in inscriptions in the territories of the Paeligni, Vestini, and Sabines.

They also were used as dedicatory offerings to the deities, and in the dramatic contests at the Dionysia the victorious choregus ( a wealthy citizen who bore the expense of equipping and training the chorus ) received a crown and a tripod.

The modern 2 ‑ lane road, the SS 3 Flaminia, still uses Vespasian's tunnel, the emperor's dedicatory inscription still in place ; remnants of the earlier tunnel can also be seen.

The scanty remnants of the dedicatory inscription also seem to indicate that the altar was consecrated to the gods because of " favors " they had bestowed.

The peace was so successfully brokered that the elder Mather took part in the new church's dedicatory services.

At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.

On the Suicide By My Side album's booklet, the band wrote a dedicatory to Jaska for, on to their own words: " saving our tour ".

Many dedicatory inscriptions recovered from the site mention both " Dione " and " Zeus Naios ".

He is known from three dedicatory inscriptions.

The goddess was prominent during the reign of the First Dynasty pharaoh Den, whose image appears on stone vessel fragments from his tomb and is mentioned in a dedicatory entry in the Palermo Stone.

A dedicatory inscription from Smyrna describes a 1st – 2nd century sanctuary to " God Himself " as the most exalted of a group of six deities, including clothed statues of Plouton Helios and Koure Selene, " Pluto the Sun " and " Kore the Moon.

* Tom Morgan, " The Menin Gate, Ypres ", with an excerpt from Lord Plumer's moving dedicatory address

While the title might seem better suited to the former book than the latter, a line from the dedicatory poem ( to " S. A .", possibly Selim Ahmed ) at the start of the book helps explain Lawrence's interpretation of the Biblical " seven pillars " and their relevance to the Arab Revolt:

César-Auguste went directly to the Desmousseauxs ', wrote out the piece from memory, and presented it to Félicité with the dedicatory line.

Very little is known about Robinson's life, but it is possible to draw conclusions from the dedicatory pages of his works.

In Roman Britain, two cohorts of Lingones, probably subscripted from among the Lingones who had remained in the area of Langres and Dijon are attested in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, from dedicatory inscriptions and stamped tiles.

A dedicatory inscription is carved into the east and west flanks of the pyramid, so as to be visible from both sides.

Inscriptions offer evidence on the following Roman monuments: an aqueduct constructed by Hadrian and restored by Alexander Severus bears a dedicatory inscription at Arapaj, a short distance from Durazzo: ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, 1-709 ); the Roman temple of Minerva ; the Temple of Diana ( CIL III, 1-602 ), which is perhaps the one mentioned by Appian ( BCiv.

A dedicatory inscription on the architrave is engraved as built by Attalos II, ruler of Pergamon from 159 BC to 138 BC.

It seems likely that Urbicus planned his campaign of attack from Corbridge in Northumberland, just to the rear of Hadrians Wall, as dedicatory inscriptions positively dated to the early 140s have been uncovered at the Antonine storage-depot there.

She is known from a single dedicatory inscription found in the United Kingdom at the Roman settlement of Clausentum ( Bitterne, near Southampton ).

Mrs. Christie makes one departure here from her recent practice, as she explains in her dedicatory foreword.

In the epistle dedicatory addressed to the king Montagu states his object to be to trace the origins of Christian faith and doctrine, and show that the Anglican position was derived from the ' ancient founts.

Thomas Winter quotes from James ' Basilikon Doron where he touches on Du Bartas, in the dedicatory epistle of his translation of du Bartas's Third Dayes Creation ( 1604 ).

The new edition contains three new dedicatory epistles, signed by Gascoigne, which apologize for some offense that the original edition had caused and effect to transfer sole responsibility for the book's content to Gascoigne himself.

His increasing reputation as both performer and improviser continued to make Franck much in demand for inaugural or dedicatory recitals of new or rebuilt Cavaillé-Coll organs: Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély's new instrument at Saint-Sulpice ( 1862 ) and later for organs at Notre-Dame, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, and La Trinité ; for some of these instruments, Franck had acted ( by himself or with Camille Saint-Saëns ) as consultant.

While it has long been claimed that he studied in Venice with Adrian Willaert, and that he was a singer at San Marco, no specific documentation of either of these events has been found ; some dedicatory material in his Venetian publications mentions him as a " disciple " or " follower ", but not specifically as a student.

Species of fraudulence begin with the ascription of the various biographies to different invented ' authors ', and continue with the dedicatory epistles to Diocletian and Constantine, the quotation of fabricated documents, the citation of non-existent authorities, the invention of persons ( extending even to the subjects of some of the minor biographies ), presentation of contradictory information to confuse an issue while making a show of objectivity, deliberately false statements, and the inclusion of material which can be shown to relate to events or personages of the late 4th century rather than the period supposedly being written about.