Domus Foundation Galilaeana

This guide to the Domus Foundation Galilaeana in Pisa starts by explaining what it does not have: no relic of Galileo's body, the way Florence keeps one. Instead it follows a single sheet of paper, a letter Galileo wrote in his own hand in 1604, and the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who founded this institute around it in 1941 inside a former Tuscan observatory. It also traces the wartime journey of a scholar's scattered library, stranded near Venice during the armistice, before it finally reached these shelves. Stand in the reading room where that reassembled paper trail now sits.