"Rethinking 1633: Writing the Life of Galileo after the Trial"

Lecture

By
Professor Paula Findlen, Stanford University

Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor and Chair of the History Department at Stanford University. She has published widely on early modern Italian history and the history of science, including Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994); The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Readings (2002); Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything (2003); and most recently a co-edited volume, Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (2009).

Event will be held at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Mariṃ, 24 West 12th Street, Auditorium