Casa Ammannati (casa natale di Galileo Galilei)

This guide to Casa Ammannati in Pisa follows the house where Giulia Ammannati's family lived, and where her newborn son, struggling to breathe, was carried to Sant'Andrea to be baptized Galileo in February 1664. It traces his parents' marriage and his father Vincenzo's work as a lutenist, then turns to a dispute that outlived them all: for three centuries, officials marked the wrong house as his birthplace. Listen for how historians finally settled where he was born, using parish records rather than the plaque on the wall.