Group Presentation Overview

- Akhil Sharma
- Ashish kumar
- Anshuman Singh
- Bhargav sharma
- Bhaskar Puri
- Rachit haritwal
- Piyush Gupta
The Life of Galileo relates the
roughly thirty-year period in
the famous astronomer's life,
when he made his greatest
discoveries, faced retribution
from the Catholic church,
recanted his life's work, and
eventually, continued to
research and write in secret.
The play begins in the year 1609, when Galileo Galeili first learns of the idea of a telescope, recently invented in
the Netherlands, from Ludovico Marsili. It is this same motivation for personal gain that encourages Brecht's Galileo to
dedicate his first post-telescope book to the young Florentine prince Cosimo II (Cosimo de' Medici) and to name the
moons of Jupiter the "Medicean Stars."
 His discovery of the moons of Jupiter and the phases of the moon
Galileo is fixated pose a challenge to the reigning Aristotelian conception of the
simultaneously on his cosmos. Galileo's assistants warn him that his theories' alignment
search for truth. with the Copernican concept of a universe with the sun at the center
and no place left for God would earn him torture or death.
In Florence and in
Rome, Galileo's
teachings are largely
met with skepticism,
and sometimes
outright anger,
among the clergy.
Brecht creates a
scene at the
Florentine court in
which Galileo pleads
with scholars and the
prince to simply look
through the telescope
to see the truth.
In Rome, monks and
priests mock and
argue with Galileo,
but all are forced to
reckon with his
findings when the
Chief Astronomer to
the Papal College
Christopher Clavius
pronounces Galileo
correct.
Brecht's Galileo finds it
difficult to defend
against the Little
Monk's argument that
religion gives the
common people a
sense of purpose and
happiness that they
Virginia Galilei had
become engaged to
Galileo's former pupil
Ludovico Marsili in
1616, but Ludovico
cautions Galileo that
he cannot be
associated with
someone promoting
heretical views and
breaks his
engagement with
Virginia. Galileo seems
wholly unconcerned
and even taunts
Ludovico with his plan
to compose his
findings in the common
language instead of
scholarly Latin.
Ludovico has made it
clear that he opposes
Galileo's findings
because they threaten
the existing social
order as much as they
do the church.
In 1633, Galileo
formally and publicly
recanted his
teachings, saving
his own life but
imperiling the
advance of science.
In the end,
however, this
decision allows
Galileo's
research to
continue.

He lives as a
prisoner under
the careful
watch of the
Catholic
church.
 He writes his
research in secret.

Andrea manages to
smuggle Galileo's
final book out of the
country for
publication in a more
progressive country.