Letters to Father

Author: Suor Maria Celeste
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0142437158

Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 (Penguin Classics)

Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo's eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Get Letters to Father literature books for free.
Now Dava Sobel has translated into English all 124 surviving letters that Virginia (renamed Suor Maria Celeste at the convent) wrote to Galileo. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years' War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo's own universe-changing discoveries. Suor Maria Celeste's letters touch on these events, but mostly they focus on details of everyday life that connect her and her father: descriptions of confections she sent to him; news of his estate, which she managed while he was on trial; a request for Galileo to fix the convent clock. Her prose reveals an excepti Check Letters to Father our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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