Word: discorsi
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Brecht divided Galileo into fourteen scenes, beginning with the man's first tinkerings with astronomy and ending with his completion of the Discorsi shortly before his death. The patchwork construction is meant to distract you from emotional involvement lest you miss the lesson of each scene. Happily, Brecht's design falls through, and tension does build...
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