Note: His Father's Son
Tag(s): Galileo, GalileoYoung
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The young Galileo acquired the standard humanist education of the day – Latin, Greek, Aristotelian logic – from schoolteachers, first in Pisa, and then in Florence, where he moved around the time of his tenth birthday with his mother and his sister Virginia (born a year before, in 1574) to join his father, who was slowly making his way at the Medici court.
LOCATION: 449
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Note: Florence
Tag(s): Galileo
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Galileo was born in Pisa, spent much of his childhood there, went to university there, and got his first proper job there. But Viviani thought it important to stress that his father was a Florentine gentleman
LOCATION: 511

Throughout his life Galileo referred to himself as a Florentine gentleman,
LOCATION: 513

An enemy, denouncing him to the Inquisition, said that he represented himself as a Florentine, but that he was in fact a Pisan.
LOCATION: 522

Throughout Galileo's life, the balance of wealth and power in Europe was slowly shifting from south to north, from Catholic to Protestant,
LOCATION: 534