Death...

Galileo died on January 8, 1642, at age 77. He suffered from fever and heart palpitations. The Grand Duke of Tuscany, wished to bury him in the main body of the Basilica of Santa Croce, next to the tombs of his father and other ancestors. Their plans wasn't easy to do however after Pope Urban VIII and his nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, protested. They protested of Galileo's suspension of heresy. Instead Galileo was burried small room next to the novices' chapel at the end of a corridor from the southern transept of the basilica to the sacristy. After he was reburied in the main body of the basilica in 1737 after a monument had been erected there in his honour.