Galileo Reappraised

The 1965 conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary of Galileo Galilei's birth, brought together leading scholars to exchange ideas on his multifaceted legacy. Sponsored by the university's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of Italian, and the Italian Quarterly, the event explored diverse aspects of Galileo’s work, including his engagement with literature (discussed by Professor Delia Terza), his integration of