Giulia Ammannati

(1538–1620)

BIRTH

1538

PLACE

Villa Basilica, Tuscany

DEATH

August 1620

PLACE

Florence, Tuscany

FAMILY

MOTHER

Galileo Galilei

(1564-1642)

HUSBAND

Vincenzo Galilei

(c. 1520–1591)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS

Giulia Ammannati was Galileo’s mother. Her family came from Pescia and later settled in Pisa.

EARLY LIFE

Her father Cosimo Ammannati was a lumber merchant; he had died by the time she married Vincenzo Galilei in 1562.

CAREER

DEATH

Giulia died in Florence in August 1620. Museo Galileo's chronology records her burial on August 10 in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine. The surviving account does not establish a cause of death.