LDR 03191nam a2200325 4500 001 000000342929 003 CaOOAMICUS 005 20201112121426.0 008 201112s2019 xxua 000 u eng r 020 $a978-0-691-17489-1 040 $aSeMil$bita 100 1 $aViviani, Vincenzio,$d<1622-1703>.$0(OLS)http://semarc/name/82999 240 10$aOn the life of Galileo.$0(OLS)http://semarc/title/431844 245 10$aOn the life of Galileo :$bViviani's historical account and other early biographies /$cedited, translated, and annotated by Stefano Gattei. 264 1$aPrinceton ; Oxford :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2019. 300 $aLXVIII, 348 p., [24] p. di tav. :$bill. (b/n) ;$c26 cm 504 $aBibliography, p. 309-338 520 2 $aThe first collection and translation into English of the earliest biographical accounts of Galileo's life, this unique critical edition presents key early biographical accounts of the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), written by his close contemporaries. Collected and translated into English for the first time and supplemented by an introduction and incisive annotations by Stefano Gattei, these documents paint an incomparable firsthand picture of Galileo and offer rare insights into the construction of his public image and the complex intertwining of science, religion, and politics in seventeenth-century Italy. 520 2 $aHere in its entirety is Vincenzo Viviani's Historical Account, an extensive and influential biography of Galileo written in 1654 by his last and most devoted pupil. Viviani's text is accompanied by his "Letter to Prince Leopold de' Medici on the Application of Pendulum to Clocks" (1659), his 1674 description of Galileo's later works, and the long inscriptions on the facade of Viviani's Florentine palace (1702). The collection also includes the "Adulatio perniciosa," a Latin poem written in 1620 by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini - who, as Pope Urban VIII, would become Galileo's prosecutor - as well as descriptive accounts that emerged from the Roman court and contemporary European biographers. 520 2 $aFeaturing the original texts in Italian, Latin, and French with their English translations on facing pages, this invaluable book shows how Galileo's pupils, friends, and critics shaped the Galileo myth for centuries to come, and brings together in one volume the primary sources needed to understand the legendary scientist in his time. 546 $aTesto in italiano e traduzione inglese a fronte 600 14$aGalilei, Galileo <1564-1642>.$0(OLS)http://semarc/subject/3284 650 4$aAstronomia - Italia.$0(OLS)http://semarc/subject/24552 700 1 $aGattei, Stefano,$d<1970- >.$0(OLS)http://semarc/name/55994 850 $aSeMil 852 $aSeMil$W1$xVenegono$y1$m3X VI 20$j222248$B233801$CSeMilBibl$Z2$F233801 $81 996 $6020$a978-0-691-17489-1$9(OLS)http://semarc/number/291624 996 $6245$aOn the life of Galileo :$bViviani's historical account and other early biographies$9(OLS)http://semarc/title/431843 996 $6264$aPrinceton ; Oxford :$bPrinceton University Press$9(OLS)http://semarc/publisher/59381