The protagonist of this book is a play, not a flesh-and-blood character. But it sort of is because everyone flocks to see it, everyone stands in long lines at the box office to admire it. It is Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, first staged in Italy in 1963, at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, directed by Giorgio Strehler. A Galileo that arrives in Milan at the end of a long journey. Before arriving there, the reader will travel halfway across Europe and the United States with Brecht, observing him as he works on his most painful and most famous play. And then he will make his entrance into the hall of the Piccolo to attend a memorable performance. One that aroused scandal. At the center of this story are a theater and a city, in the temper of the 1960s. An exciting story.