Certain geniuses come late to fame.  Galileo is one of these, realizing his greatest discoveries after his sixtieth year, driven by his unquenchable thirst for knowledge.  This is perhaps why we always imagine him as an old man, white-bearded, his gaze lost among the stars, an epitome of the ancient sage.  The Italian actor, author and director, Marco Paolini, brings new life to this mythical figure whose lively mind remains as fresh as ever.  And it is with unbounded enthusiasm that he invites the public to discover a world of magic and myth, of science and physics, of art and mathematics through the text which he has written with Francesco Niccolini and Michela Signori.  By reincarnating the great men who haunt Galileo's imagination, from Aristotle to Plato and Giordano Bruno to Shakespeare, he reveals the scholar's complex personality, torn between faith, reason and superstition.  Marco Paolini is renowned for his participative civic and philosophical theatre; here he celebrates the notion of doubt, with scathing humor.