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Part One, To Florence

• The first letter from Maria Celeste to Galileo is presented.

• Reader learns about Maria Celeste's birth and heritage.

• Irony of Bruno's death is discussed.

• The relationship between Galileo and Marina Gamba is discussed.
• Galileo takes his daughters away, leaving Vincenzio with Marina.

• Virginia joins the convent at San Matteo.

• Virginia becomes Maria Celeste.

• Livia joins the convent; becomes Arcangela.
• Vincenzio goes to the University of Pisa to study law.

• Galileo teaches at the Universities of Pisa and Padua.

• Galileo discovers and refines the telescope.

• Galileo works off of Copernicus' theories.

• Galileo was warned to cease his work on the heavens.
• Pope Urban supported Galileo's work.

• Galileo published his first work.

• Maria Celeste continues to support her father's work.

• Marina Gamba dies.
• Galileo continues to teach while being employed in the court of the Medici family.

• Galileo is arrested and tried for heresy and blasphemy...

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