Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

ISBN-13: 9781349955770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 98 str.

Meredith K. Ray

Recenzje

"The slim volume will be a resource not just for readers and researchers but also for classroom discussion, where the letters could serve as great primary sources to feature in a number of course contexts. Enjoy!" (Carla Nappi, New Books network, newbooksnetwork.com, March, 2017)

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS  

 

I. Introduction

 

II. Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

 

1. Sarrocchi and Galileo in Rome

2. Science and the Scanderbeide

3. Sarrocchi’s Scanderbeide and Galileo’s “Enemy Eye”

4. The Controversy Over Galileo’s “Medicean Stars”

5. Reading the Stars

6. Diverging Paths

 

III. Letters of Margherita Sarrocchi and Galileo (With Three Related Letters)   

O autorze

Meredith K. Ray is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy and Writing Gender: Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance.