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Documents in the Vatican’s Secret Archives date from the 8th to the 20th Centuries, and now these documents will be on view to the public for the first time.
Among the featured documents are a letter to Pope Clement VII in 1530 urging him to annul Henry VIII’s first marriage and a report on the trial of astronomer Galileo Galilei.
Archivist Pier Paolo Piergentili said the aim is to physically show the sources of history, and make available the documents that have created history in Europe, and not only Europe.
More details on the collection can be found at Reuters.