"Quando il gatto vede i topi balla la musica delle sfere celesti"

Francesco Stabili, known as Cecco d’Ascoli, was an illustrious scholar, astrologer, astronomer, poet and magister first at the University of Bologna and then Florence. A contemporary of Dante Alighieri, with whom he also had relations, he also enjoyed the esteem of Francesco Petrarca and other important intellectuals of his time, until he was condemned to the stake for heresy in 1327 in Florence. The complex human story of Cecco d’Ascoli, who lived in a time of great transformations is revisited in this monologue, in a fantastic key, but with precise historical and scientific references.