> Of course, Francesco Tribioli, an astronomer(?) himself, would name his Yes, indeed. I would say a former astronomer as in the last 15 years or so I've worked fulltime with computers, here at the Florence Astrophysical Observatory.
> tablature program after Vincenzo Galilei's treatise on the > lute, Fronimo Dialogo (1568; 2nd. rev. ed. 1581/1586. Exactly. The last residence of Galileo Galilei is just 200-300 meter away from the place where I work and being myself an astronomer and lutenist (even if a couple of orders of magnitude worse than Galileo family under both aspects) the choice of the name came out natural 8^) Francesco