Galileo 's residences

Collection title

Tgr Bellitalia

ID

RAI00316

Source

RAI (IT)

First broadcast date

06/12/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Cristina Di Domenico talks about the opening of the Galileo Museum in Florence and interviews Paolo Galluzzi (museum director) on the biography of the mathematician and the inventor. Alberto Severi speaks about the various houses inhabited by Galileo.views of the interior of Galileo Museum of Florence and details of the instruments and inventions made by Galileo Galilei, and a reliquary containing his middle finger. Interior and exterior of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, with details of Galileo's tomb; the Via Sant Antonino's house, decorated with the bust of Galileo; Villa Galileo and the Villa Bellosguardo in Arcetri (Florence).

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Own production

Broadcaster

RAI - RAI Tre

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Museum

Secondary themes

• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Science / Science of the Universe

Credits / Cast

• Di Domenico Cristina - Speaker
• Severi Alberto - Author of original work

Period of events

• From 1500 to 1800

Map locations

• Italy - Centre - Florence

Original language

Italian

Media running time

12m4