Galileo (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bertolt Brecht
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1609-1637
- Setting: Florence, Padua, Rome, and Venice
- Principal Characters: Galileo Galilei, Virginia, Ludovico Marili, Mrs. Sarti, Andrea Sarti, Priuli, Sagredo, Philosopher, Little Monk, Federzoni, Cardinal Barberini
- 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
The Story:
In 1609, the forty-six-year-old Galileo Galilei, a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, Italy, was forced to live frugally and in humble surroundings, despite his taste for luxury and good food, which matched his enthusiasm for his studies. When his housekeeper’s son, Andrea, brought in a model of the geocentric universe based on the ancient Ptolemaic system, Galileo demonstrated how the earth orbited around the sun, as had been hypothesized by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. A young aristocrat named Ludovico arrived, seeking a tutorship...
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