Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo (eBook)

Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XII, 98 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo - Meredith K. Ray
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This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, reveals how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his help revising her epic poem, offering, in return, her endorsement of his recent telescopic discoveries. Situated against the vibrant and often contentious backdrop of early modern intellectual and academic culture, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the Scientific Revolution was, in fact, the product of a long evolution with roots in the deep connections between literary and scientific exchanges.  





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.      



This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, reveals how Sarrocchi approached Galileo for his help revising her epic poem, offering, in return, her endorsement of his recent telescopic discoveries. Situated against the vibrant and often contentious backdrop of early modern intellectual and academic culture, their letters illustrate, in miniature, that the Scientific Revolution was, in fact, the product of a long evolution with roots in the deep connections between literary and scientific exchanges.  

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.      

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)   

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.6.2016
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Zusatzinfo XII, 98 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
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Schlagworte Astronomy • EPIC • Galileo • History of Literature • Italian Literature • Italy • Margherita Sarrocchi • Poem • Poetics • Renaissance • seventeenth-century • Women
ISBN-10 1-137-59603-1 / 1137596031
ISBN-13 978-1-137-59603-1 / 9781137596031
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