Assemblea celeste
Subtitle: radunata nouamte in Parnasso sopra la noua cometa
By: dall'academico danico il riposato, descritta in vna lettera all'academico italico lo spassionato
Publisher: Per Marco Tulio Paganello, per contro S. Protasio la Rouere
Published: 1619
Place of publication: In Milano
Language: ita
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Humor; Early works to 1800; Astronomy; Comets; Satires; Astronomie; Komet
Other titles: Assemblea celeste radvnata novamte in Parnasso sopra la nova cometa
Description: An imagined dispute between Tycho Brahe and Aristotle, set on Mount Parnassus.
Notes: Published anonymously. A work with a similar title, "Assemblea delle comete", has been attributed to Giovanni Rho, but is also sometimes ascribed to Giacomo Rho. Cf. Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, v. 2, p. 383; Backer-Sommervogel, v. 6, column 1717, and Corrections vol., columns 265 and 739.

Probable publication date from p. 3 (dedication), dated "Da Sideropoli alli 20. Gen. 1619."

Signatures: A-D⁴ E⁶.

Engraved title vignette depicts a tree blown over by strong winds, with the caption "una hora," a reference to a passage in Curtius Quintus. On page 44 the illustration is stated to have been commissioned from Caravaggio by Tycho's followers, who nailed it to Aristotle's door during the night.

Dealer's description, containing additional information on the book's authorship, and its influence on Galileo, removed to Bibliographic File.

Bound in marbled boards; parchment spine.