Particolare epigrafe - Casa natale di Galileo Galilei (G. Bettini, Comune di Pisa)
Birthplace of Galileo Galilei, via Giusti
Casa natale di Galileo Galilei (G. Bettini, Comune di Pisa)'Galileo di Vincentio Ghalilei fiorentino e di m.a Giulia sua donna fu batezato a di’ 19 ditto Compari e Chavalieri forno el S.re Pompeo et Messer Haverardo de’ Medici in Chapella di S.to Andrea'. So reads the baptism act of Galileo Galilei preserved in the archive of the Primaziale of Pisa, dated 19 February 1564. We are in front of Casa Ammannati, the home of the maternal family of the great Pisan genius. Giulia Ammannati was born in Villa Basilica in 1538, but soon moved to Pisa due to her father's activity as a timber merchant, Cosimo Ventura of the Ammannati of Pescia. She had three sisters Diamante, Dorotea and Ermellina, and a brother, Leone. It was the latter who accompanied Giulia to the altar, her father having passed away, when on 5 July 1562 she married Vincenzo Galilei, here in Pisa, guaranteeing a dowry of 100 gold scudi that was used by the newlyweds for food during a whole year: dote scutorum centum aurum et pannis et lanis […] expenses victus pro tempore unius annis.
