At times, she had copied over his correspondence, This was the daughter who, from her own prison within a convent since her 13th birthday, had lovingly bleached her father's collars. After her death, he wrote to a family friend that he felt ''immense sadness and melancholy,'' had lost his appetite and continually Part of Galileo's grief was the loss of his illegitimate daughter Suor Maria Celeste, at the age of 33. N 1641, old and blind and under house arrest for suspicion of heresy, Galileo Galilei wrote to his most beloved student: ''I spend my fruitlessÄays which are so long because of my continuous inactivity and yet so brief compared with all the months and years which have passed I am left with no other comfort than the memory of the sweetness of former friendships.'' Audio Special: An Interview With Dava Sobel (Taped Oct.The story of the life and trials of Galileo as seen through the eyes of his cloistered, illegitimate daughter.
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