The interesting thing to me is that we call his father, a lutenist and composer, Vincenzo Galilei. Maybe there has to be an unbroken tradition of referring to

The interesting thing to me is that we call his father, a lutenist and composer, Vincenzo Galilei. Maybe there has to be an unbroken tradition of referring to the person at all; we've talked about Galileo nonstop for 500 years, but there were a few hundred years there where almost everyone had forgotten Vincenzo.