I truly believe that in, “The Dialogue”, Galileo is trying to portray the truth and distribute the truth to its rightful owner. I also believe that he is trying to simplify things. The way I interpreted it, in the beginning of the dialogue, it seems there is some sort of argument or disagreement over the truth and who came up with the truth. On the second page, the characters seem to disagree with the claims of Aristotle. While, Simplicio is praising the works of Aristotle-Sagredo and Salviatui are questioning his works, saying that he will praise Virgil and Ovid while he does not really acknowledge the great works of Aristotle and also saying that Aristotle is getting undeserved desire for his authority. Also, I believe Galileo is trying to persuade the reader that is not particularly difficult to understand how the universe and all of the stars, etcetera work. Also, to prove my point about distributing the truth to its rightful owner, Simplcio seems to just strip Aristotle of the guide of Philosophy and force a new owner to the guide of philosophy. I think one cannot just have the guide of philosophy be one person one minute, and then just proclaim another guide of philosophy.
I cannot say Galileo completely succeeded despite his best efforts. I would say he did not succeed because I classify myself and I still do not completely understand the universe. Also, I do not believe Galileo succeeded in distributing the truth to its rightful owner because I believe there was some uncertainty and confusion about who was the guide for philosophy.