Arcetri

The poet John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, visited Galileo at Arcetri, the hilly area to the South of Florence where he was under house arrest.

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In December 1633 he was allowed to retire to his villa in Arcetri, outside of Florence.

Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009

Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) and to teach a course on laser spectroscopy to Ph.D. students at the University of Florence in the enchanting hills of Arcetri.

Theodor W. Hänsch - Autobiography 2006

As a result, he was confined in Siena and eventually, in December 1633, he was allowed to retire to his villa in Arcetri.

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For this reason, the Arcetri library is investigating methods for publishing diferent kinds of electronic documents on the net and a way of enriching them with semantic metadata.

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He was afterwards allowed to return to his villa at Arcetri, and, though regarded as a prisoner of the Inquisition, was permitted to pursue his studies unmolested for the remainder of his days.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

At the expiration of a few months Galileo was ordered to return to Arcetri, which he never left again.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

Galileo died at Arcetri on January 8, 1642, when in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

Milton, during his stay at Florence, visited Galileo at Arcetri.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

The rigorous curtailment of his liberty which prompted Galileo to head his letters, 'From my prison at Arcetri,' was relaxed when total blindness had supervened upon the infirmities of age.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard