Maria Celeste Galilei
Virginia Gamba; Virginia Galilei; Suor Maria Celeste
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian
Dates1600 — 1634
female author
renaissance
Sister Maria Celeste was an Italian nun. She was the illegitimate daughter of the scientist Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba. After Galileo's death, 124 letters from Maria Celeste written between 1623 and 1633 were discovered among his papers. Galileo's responses to his daughter have been lost. Maria Celeste's letters have been published.— Wikipedia