Galileo's House Traditional Geocache
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Galileo’s House
Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
Al numero 19 di Via Costa San Giorgio, a Firenze c’è la casa in cui Galileo Galilei visse dal 1610 al 1633, quando fu condannato dall’Inquisizione agli arresti domiciliari a vita per eresia a seguito della pubblicazione del suo libro “Dialogo sopra i massimi sistemi del mondo” in cui difendeva la teoria eliocentrica di Copernico contro il dogma della chiesa cattolica che poneva la terra al centro dell’universo. Galileo allora preferì trasferirsi nella sua villa poco distante: “Il Gioiello” sulla collina di Arcetri dove ora c’è l’Osservatorio. Sulla facciata della casa c’è il ritratto del grande scienziato ed una lapide a ricordo della visita che il Granduca Ferdinando II gli fece nel 1620. Solo nel 1992 la Chiesa Cattolica riconobbe il suo errore e Papa Giovanni Paolo II riabilitò Galileo.
At number 19 of Via Costa San Giorgio, in Florence, there is the house in which Galileo Galilei lived from 1610 until 1633 when he was condammned to the house arrest for life, as guilty for heresy, because of the publishing of his book “Dialogue concerning the World Major Systems” in which he defended the Copernican heliocentric theory against the dogma of the Catholic Church who placed the Earth in the centre of the Universe. Then Galileo preferred to move to his other house, the villa “Il Gioiello” (The Jewel), not far, on the hill of Arcetri where, at the present day, there is the Arcetri Observatory. On the facade of the house there is a portrait of Galileo and a memorial stone remembering the visit that the Grand-Duke Ferdinand II made in 1620. Only in 1992 the Catholic Church recognized the mistake and Pope John Paul II expressed regret about the sentence of 1633.
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