Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
as Galileo Galilei
as Cardinal Inquisitor
as Priuli
as Ballad Singer's Wife
as Ballad Singer
as Elderly Court Lady
as The Old Cardinal
as Sagredo
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
as Fulganzio
as Ludovico Marsili
as Angelica Sarti
as Federzoni
as Cardinal Bellarmin
as Virginia
as young lady
