Beware of the Pigeon League’. The warning came from Galileo’s closest friend in the city, the artist Lodovico Cardi (known as Cigoli) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigoli w;ho was currently working on a remarkable fresco on the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore. It depicted the Madonna standing on the moon -- the moon as revealed by Galileo’s drawing, www.italyonthisday.com/2016/09/cigoli-painter-and-architect.html all pickmarked and irregular. The Pigeon League was his code for malicious group ready to ue any excuse to make trouble. There were many such in the bickering, backbiting, clustrophobic little world on the Eternal City. ~ Page 138 “A Magical World” ~ Derek K. Wilson