Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford CA 94305

Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship
February 2-3, 2024
Stanford Humanities Center
Friday, February 2 9:00-9:30 am
Coffee and pastries 9:30-9:45 am
Welcome and Introduction(Hannah Marcus, Harvard, and Paula Findlen, Stanford)
9:45-12:00 Session 1: Galileo’s Correspondence: Epistolary Strategies (Chair, Daniel Stolzenberg, UC Davis)
Anna-Luna Post (Jesus College, Cambridge University): Letters as Instruments of Fame
Meredith K. Ray (University of Delaware): Galileo’s Female Galaxy
Federica Favino (Università di Roma, La Sapienza): The Missing Node: Antonio Santini (1577-1662) among Galileo's Correspondents
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm Session 2: How Galileo’s Letters Traveled (Chair, Stefania Tutino, UCLA)
Salvatore Ricciardo (Università di Bergamo): A Tentative Map of the Letter to Castelli of 21 December 1613 in the Events of the ‘First Galileo Trial’
Eileen Reeves (Princeton): Galileo Galilei and the Madman from Montelupo
3:00-3:30 pm Coffee 3:30-5:00 pm Session 3: Artisans of Correspondence (Chair, Sarah Prodan, Stanford)
Franco Giudice (Università di Milano): Tobie Matthew’s Role in the Circulation of the Letter to Castelli of 21 December 1613
Nick Wilding (Georgia State): Textual Titubations: Amanuenses, Copyists and Thieves in the Making of the Letter to Alfonso Antonini
Saturday, February 3
10:00-10:30 Coffee and pastries
10:30-12 pm Session 4: Galileo’s Correspondence in the Digital Age (Chair, Massimo Mazzotti, UC Berkeley)
Hannah Marcus (Harvard) and Paula Findlen (Stanford): Missing Letters: Reconstructing Galileo’s Venetian Correspondence
Crystal Hall (Bowdoin College): Unediting Galileo
12-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm Final Round Table (Chair, Mario Biagioli, UCLA)
Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley)
Renee Raphael (UC Irvine)