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The starry messenger / George Keithley.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.E378 S77 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keithley, George, 1935-
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The poems in The Starry Messenger explore the many facets of Galileo Galilei's life and times -- his troubled childhood, his appetites and love affairs, his early scientific discoveries, his famed exploration of the heavens, his house arrest, his blindness.
- Emphasizing Galileo's independent nature and his affection for his mistress and daughter, George Keithley provides one of the most personal portraits of the astronomer ever written. In the process, he depicts the sensuous world of religion, magic, and science that was seventeenth-century Florence, Padua, Venice, Ostia, and Rome.
- Contents:
- I Passion
- 1. The Astronomer's Childhood and Early Youth 3
- 2. Ambition 6
- 3. Portrait of Galileo as a Young Man 8
- 4. Desire 11
- 5. Charting the Planets 12
- 6. His Fondness for Animals, His Fear of Pain, His Fabulous Appetite 14
- 7. Writing in Her Diary, His Daughter Welcomes the First Spring Rain Falling in the Hills 16
- 8. The Whispering City 17
- 9. Venice: The Morning Market Opens 19
- 10. Wary of Rome 20
- II Vision
- 11. What the Mind's Eye Sees 23
- 12. Tintoretto 26
- 13. Adriatic Evening 28
- 14. Stellar Dominions 29
- 15. What Monsters 31
- III Interlude
- 16. The Black Death Visits Venice 35
- 17. In the Monastery Garden 37
- 18. Herons 38
- 19. The Madonna of Purgatory 39
- 20. Carnevale 40
- IV An Unquiet Mind
- 21. Galileo Visits His Mistress while Her Son Sleeps, Dreaming of His Own Death 47
- 22. Six Fragments from Johannes Kepler's Last Letter to Galileo 50
- 23. Authority 53
- 24. Galileo Speaks with God on a Midsummer Night of Shimmering Stars 55
- 25. Heresy 57
- 26. The Power of Suggestion 60
- 27. A Cautionary Tour of the Cellar Chamber 61
- 28. On Trial 65
- 29. Upon Learning His Appeal for a Pardon Is Denied 68
- 30. The Death of Galileo 69.
- ISBN:
- 0822958163
- OCLC:
- 51610542
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