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Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin Group
  • 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm

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For those who love family stories and history.

Letters to Father shares a unique father-daughter bond.

You’ll feel closer to your loved ones through these letters.

Discover the heartfelt letters of Suor Maria Celeste, Galileo's daughter, as she shares her daily life and deep love for her father during a time of great change.

The fascinating letters of Galileo's eldest daughter to her father

Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor Maria Celeste at the convent) wrote to Galileo. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years' War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo's own universe-changing discoveries. Suor Maria Celeste's letters touch on these events, but mostly they focus on details of everyday life that connect her and her father: descriptions of confections she sent to him; news of his estate, which she managed while he was on trial; a request for Galileo to fix the convent clock. Her prose reveals an exceptional woman and presents a memorable portrait of deep affection between a father and daughter.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • Title

    Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633

  • Author

    Suor Maria Celeste

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Penguin Group

  • Published

    December 2002

  • Weight

    141g

  • Dimensions

    12.9 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780142437155

  • ISBN-10

    0142437158

  • Eden Code

    6208694

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