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Towards the end of 1587 Galileo is going to be 24: he is an esteemed mathematician who is looking for a job. Recommended by the Treasurer of the Papal Court and emboldened by the positive opinions of both Guidobaldo del Monte and Cristoforo Clavio, Galileo applies for the chair at the University of Bologna. He also hopes, as he writes to marquis Guidobaldo, to obtain a Chair of Maths in Florence, which has been “established by the Grand Duke Cosimo, since it is vacant at the moment and appealing for several noblemen, as fas as I understand” [X, 28].
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Greco, P. (2018). Galileo a Literary Critic. In: Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72032-6_10
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