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During one of his frequent trips to Venice, Galileo met a young woman named Marina, daughter of Andrea Gamba, and started a relationship with her. She moved into his house in Padua and bore him three children: Virginia (16 August 1600 – 1634), later Sister Maria Celeste ; Livia (1601–1659), later Sister Arcangela; and Vincenzo (1606–1649).
Giulia Ammannati was born in 1538 in the small village of Villa Basilica. [1] [better source needed] Her father, Cosimo, was a wood merchant of Pescia, who moved to Pisa before 1536. [2] Among the ancestors of the Ammannati family was the secretary of Pope Pius II, Iacopo Ammanati. [3]
The play does not give an accurate portrayal of her life as it depicts her becoming engaged, rather than as a nun. She appears as a character in the novel Galileo's Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson. Maria Celeste is a character in the 2024 musical Galileo by Michael Weiner, Zoe Sarnak, and Danny Strong. [11]
Vincenzo or Vincenzio Gamba (1606–1649), later Vincenzo Galilei (1619), was the illegitimate son of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and his mistress Marina Gamba (1570–1612). Vincenzo was legitimated to his father in 1619. Like his grandfather Vincenzo Galilei, the younger Vincenzo became a lutenist.
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [16] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a leading lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, the daughter of a prominent merchant, who had married two years earlier in 1562, when he was 42, and she was 24.
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
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Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where on 5 July he married Giulia Ammannati of a noble family. Galileo Galilei was the oldest of six or seven children; another son, Michelagnolo, born in 1575, [4] became an accomplished lutenist and composer. Galilei was a skilled player of the lute who early in life attracted the attention of powerful ...