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Federzoni grinds the lenses for Galileo Galilei’s first telescope, a simple task that somehow makes him another of Galileo’s students (despite being older than either Andrea or the Little Monk). While a skilled workman and devoted friend, Federzoni lacks any kind of formal education. As such, he doesn’t speak Latin at all and he struggles to understand the complicated, Latinate arguments put forth by Galileo’s intellectual opponents. He is never embarrassed by these struggles, though, and he even seems comfortable engaging those opponents once Galileo has required them to make their arguments in Italian. Like Andrea and the Little Monk, Federzoni turns his back on Galileo after he recants his research.
Federzoni Quotes in The Life of Galileo
The The Life of Galileo quotes below are all either spoken by Federzoni or refer to Federzoni. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene 4 Quotes
Right, then let's have new textbooks.
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Federzoni breaks into Galileo’s conversation with the Cosimo and Cosimo’s advisors. The advisors have just told Federzoni that any textbook will prove that Galileo is wrong. Federzoni’s response is at once fearless, simple, and evocative. Federzoni doesn’t have the education or scientific knowledge that Cosimo’s people have, but he has seen Galileo’s proofs and isn’t afraid to stand up for them. Remember, too, that Cosimo’s scientists aren’t just academics: they’re advisors to the most powerful politician in the land. If Federzoni’s impertinence had angered them enough, he could be in a lot of trouble. However, Galileo seems to have infected Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis cons
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Wine-pump! Snail-eater! Did you save your precious skin?
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Galileo has recanted his research and his group of students reacts. Andrea is the most vocal and hurtful among them. For his entire life, Andrea has held Galileo up as a beacon of intellectual vigor and curiosity. In turn, Galileo has given Andrea a life he could have scarcely dreamed of otherwise: that of an accomplished, well-educated academic. Thus, for Andrea the intellectual world is everything, and he feels that Galileo has abandoned that world for such base things as wine and fancy foods. In that light, Andrea doesn’t even attempt to make an intellectual argument about what Galileo has Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corr
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Federzoni Character Timeline in The Life of Galileo
The timeline below shows where the character Federzoni appears in The Life of Galileo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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When Galileo arrives with his lens-grinder and friend, Federzoni, the rest of the court accompany him upstairs. He talks to Cosimo’s scientists about how...
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...the subject of Copernicus, he has amassed a group of pupils in the form of Federzoni, Andrea, and the Little Monk. The group is meeting when a former student enters. The...
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The book is delivered to Federzoni, who can’t read the title, as it’s in Latin. Andrea reads it for him (it’s...
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...present Aristotle’s argument in Latin, but Galileo demands that he translate it into Italian for Federzoni’s sake. Through the experiment, they discover that Aristotle was again wrong, and Federzoni laughs at...
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Federzoni replies that this surely won’t be a problem, since the peasants can’t read the Latin...
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In Rome, Virginia, Federzoni, the Little Monk, and Andrea await the outcome of Galileo’s questioning by the Inquisition. All...
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...of light. Galileo then asks about his pupils, whom he says he led into error. Federzoni resumed his career as a lens grinder. The Little Monk returned to the Church. And...
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