Galileo (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Bertolt Brecht
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1609-1637
- 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
Places Discussed
*Padua. Northern Italian city at whose university Galileo is a forty-six-year-old professor of mathematics when the play opens. Both the place and person are in tension because the mercantile republic of Venice desires power, wealth, and prestige, and Galileo wants to advance scientific knowledge, boost his career, and make his life comfortable. Although he knows that the telescope is a Dutch invention, he presents himself to the Venetian senators as its creator, assuring them “on the most scientific and Christian principles” that it has been “the product...
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