Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh press, c2003.
Descrizione fisica:
72 p. ; 23 cm
Serie:
Pitt poetry series
Contiene:
Indice: Pt. 1. Passion: 1. The astronomer's childhood and early youth 2. Ambition 3. Portrait of Galileo as a young man 4. Desire 5. Charting the planets 6. His fondness for animals, his fear of pain, his fabulous appetite 7. Writing in her diary, his daughter welcomes the first spring rain falling in the hills 8. The whispering city 9. Venice: the morning market opens 10. Wary of Rome. Pt. 2. Vision: 11. What the mind's eye sees 12. Tintoretto 13. Adriatic evening 14. Stellar dominions 15. What monsters Pt. 3. Interlude: 16. The black death visits Venice 17. In the monastery garden 18. Herons 19. The madonna of purgatory 20. Carnevale. Pt. 4. An unquiet mind: 21. Galileo visits his mistress while her son sleeps, dreaming of his own death 22. Six fragments from Johannes Kepler's last letter to Galileo 23. Authority 24. Galileo speaks with God on a midsummer night of shimmering stars 25. Heresy 26. The power of suggestion 27. AQ cautionary tour of the cellar chamber 28. On trial 29. Upon learning his appeal for a pardon is denied 30. The death of Galileo. Acknowledgments
