Galileo (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Bertolt Brecht
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1609-1637
- Setting: Florence, Padua, Rome, and Venice
- Genres: Drama, Epic
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Antiheroes, Seventeenth century, Duty, Ethics, Italy or Italians, Popes or papacy, Astronomy or astronomers
- Locales: Vienna, Austria, Venice, Italy, Florence, Italy, Rome, Italy, Padua, Italy
Characters Discussed
Galileo Galilei (gah-lee-LAY- oh gah-lee-LAY-ee), a forty-five-year-old lecturer at the University of Padua and a subject of the Republic of Venice. He lives with his daughter, Virginia; his housekeeper, Mrs. Sarti; and her bright son, Andrea, whom he enjoys instructing in his research in astronomy and physics. He is fat, self-indulgent, sensuous, and crafty, a glutton for both old wine and new ideas, a hedonist but also a great teacher as well as scientist. Frustrated by his meager pay, which he must supplement by private tutoring, Galileo accepts the...
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