After discovering seven old love letters from a Frenchman she met when she was nineteen, the forty-year-old author reconnects with him and ends up moving to France to pursue their relationship.
Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.
Chronicles the life of Galileo Galilei, focusing on his relationship with his eldest child Virginia, and explaining how she helped influence her father's work.