Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
A History, Nonfiction book. Suor Maria Celeste's letters would have been otherwise lost had she not been the daughter of Galileo, as Dava...
The fascinating letters of Galileo's eldest daughter to her fatherPlaced in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo’s eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor Maria Celeste at the convent) wrote to Galileo. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years’ War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo’s own universe-changing discoveries. Suor Maria Celeste’s letters touch on these events, but mostly they focus on details of everyday life that connect her and her father: descriptions of...
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- Pages: 176 pages
- ISBN: 9780142437155 / 142437158
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Good, but Dava Sobel's 'Galileo's Daughter' does a better job of giving you the narrative and the context. A must read after reading Galileo's Daughter. Suor Maria Celeste's letters would have been otherwise lost had she not been the daughter of Galileo, as Dava Sobel points out in her introduction. This is a quiet and very kind book that gives you a sense of life and daily rituals at that time. Suor Maria Celeste emerges modestly as a kind of heroine of her time, in a way many ordinary...
