Galileo’s Daughter

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa Italy, in the same year as Shakespeare, 1564. His father, Vincenzio Galilei, was a musician interested in the revival of classical Greek musical forms. Giulia Galilei was his mother. He got his name from Galileo Buonaiuti (a physician in the family) after whom the family had taken the last name Galilei. Galileo had sister, Virginia, and brother Michelangelo. His mistress Marina Gamba of Venice (outside of marriage) gave birth to daughters Virginia and Livia, and then bore him a son, Vincenzio. Galileo never married Marina, and she eventually married another man when Galileo left for Florence after being named chief philosopher and mathematician by the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

His son, Vincenzio, had been legitimized in a fiat by the grand duke of Tuscany and gone off to study law at the University of Pisa. But Galileo’s daughters, Virginia and Livia, were placed in the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri, where Virginia took the name of "Maria Celeste," (this was a tribute to her father's fascinatio

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