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Giulia Ammannati
Mother of Galileo Galilei
Giulia Ammannati (1 January 1538, Villa Basilica – 1 August 1620, Florence) was a woman from Lucca and Livorno area who is best known as the mother of Galileo Galilei.
She was a member of a prosperous family. Her ancestor Iacopo Ammannati was the secretary of Pope Pius II.
Life
Giulia Ammannati was born in 1538 in the small village of Villa Basilica.[1][better source needed] Her father, Cosimo, was a wood merchant of Pescia, who moved to Pisa before 1536.[2] Among the ancestors of the Ammannati family was the secretary of Pope Pius II, Iacopo Ammanati.[3] Ammannati had three sisters, Diamante, Dorotea and Ermellina, and a brother, Leone.[4]
On 5 July 1562, Ammannati married Vincenzio Galilei at Pisa.[2] By this time Ammannati's father already died and her brother Leone was to take charge of the dowry.[3] Ammannati brought a hundred scudi as a dowry