Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

Collection of correspondence and papers relating to persons associated with Galileo, and to members of the Galilei family. Mainly Italian, partly Latin and French.

1-42 Correspondence and papers of the brothers Cosimo (d. c. 1635) and Sebastiano Zefferini, of Cortona, relating to their financial dealings with the bank in Venice of Antonio Francesco Deti and Francesco Galilei, and later of Francesco and Bendetto Galilei.

43-75 Correspondence and papers relating to persons associated with Galileo, and to members of the Galilei family, including Cardinals Pietro Aldobrandini, Bonifacio Bevilacqua, Carlo Conti, Benedetto Giustiniani, Berlinghiero Gessi, and Ludovico Ludovisi; Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Rieti, Virgilio Malvezzi, Bartolomeo Galilei, banker at Lyons, Filippo Galilei, Bishop of Cortona, and others.

76-107 Transcripts of papers relating to Galileo, and miscellaneous papers relating to the Galletti collection.

1575-1905

107 items Partly printed.

Purchased from Gonnelli, Florence, 1929.

Additional to MSS. 292, 294-295, 299, 2306, 2460-2463, 3435, 4948-4950.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

The collection was formed by Conte Paolo Galletti (d. 1914) at Arcetri, Florence.