Galileo's Daughter [SCM]

Chapters

• 1 She who was so precious to you
• 2 This grand book the universe
• 3 Bright stars speak of your virtues
• 4 To have the truth seen and recognized
• 5 In the very face of the sun
• 6 Observant executrix of God's commands
• 7 The malice of my persecutors
• 8 Conjecture here among shadows
• 9 How our father is favored
• 10 To busy myself in your service
• 11 What we require above all else
• 12 Because of our zeal
• 13 Through my memory of their eloquence
• 14 A small and trifling body
• 15 On the right path, by the grace of God
• 16 The tempest of our many torments
• 17 While seeking to immortalize your fame
• 18 Since the Lord chastises us with these whips
• 19 The hope of having you always near
• 20 That I should be begged to publish such a work
• 21 How anxiously I live, awaiting word from you
• 22 In the chambers of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
• 23 Vainglorious ambition, pure ignorance, and inadvertence
• 24 Faith vested in the miraculous Madonna of Impruneta
• 25 Judgment passed on your book and your person
• 26 Not knowing how to refuse him the keys
• 27 Terrible destruction on the feast of San Lorenzo
• 28 Recitation of the penitential psalms
• 29 The book of life, or A prophet accepted in his own land
• 30 My soul and its longing
• 31 Until I have this from your lips
• 32 As I struggle to understand
• 33 The memory of the sweetnesses