  Raffaello Caverni, a Catholic priest, was a truly lay and anti-establishment
intellectual in his opinions both on Darwin and on Galileo. He opposed the
mythicization of Galileo, as a rule in Italy after the unification, even though
he considered Galileo a great scientist. As a consequence the scientific
community of that time, under the influence of Antonio Favaro, bitterly
censured his work Storia del Metodo Sperimentale in Italia.In this way,
Caverni's book was removed from the scientific debate in Italy for at least
forty years.
