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About tailed stars and other stories: coming back from Apotelesma congress

October 31, 2011

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Traditional astrology is alive and kicking in Italy too, and the evidence is the yearly meeting of Apotelesma congress, organized by its President and our friend Lucia Bellizia. Under an almost summer sun - very strange for Halloween’s eve - but we had the traditional pumpkin and candles together with  six lectures, which put together [...]

Stars of Florence

June 7, 2011

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As every year,  this year too I attended the meeting of Cieloeterra group because I’m strongly persuaded this event is a great opportunity to learn many new things , and as usually I was not  disappointed. Moreover by change the hotel was in front the pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, one of the oldest of [...]

The Soldiers of Fate

December 18, 2010

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The new and full translation of  Valens’Anthology has been like an earthquake in the astrological traditional world. To be honest, as I see, Hellenistic authors are very difficult to integrate into Medieval and Renaissance (or early-modern) astrology, because it is 99% based on Ptolemy Tetrabiblos- it is evident consulting whatever astrological manual of those times. If this [...]

The starred sky in science and art: the early fifteenth-century representations of the Ptolemaic stars catalogue

November 6, 2010

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One of the most interesting lectures in the recent Apotelesma congress was the one given by Felice Stoppa, the author of the famous site about celestial maps and atlases Atlas Coelestis, rewarded in November 2005 by the Griffith Observatory Star Award.   This is the English translation, which I believe could be of interest for many. [...]

Coming back from Apotelesma Traditional Congress

October 19, 2010

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The gentle author of this blog is just arrived from Genoa, one of the four Maritime Republics of the Middle Ages, well known for being the birth place of Cristoforo Colombo, well known for being the discovery of America.

Celestial visions

January 31, 2010

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One of the most important cultural centres of Rome of 1600 was Collegio Romano, the general house of Jesuits, founded by St. Ignatius de Loyola in 1534.

About Giuseppe Bezza, starred images, scorpions and much more

May 25, 2009

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Yesterday morning at 6.30 Giancarlo Ufficiale Fabrizio Corrias and me left Rome for Milan:  there we met Patrizia Nava and Lucia Bellizia. Our astrological destination, Giuseppe Bezza’s lecture about Centiloquium and much more.

The illustrated astrological congress in Perugia

March 9, 2009

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The gentle author of this blog has just arrived from Perugia, where she peregrined - she was obliged to wake up to 5 AM to arrive in time - for the Congress organized by Nunzia Coppola Meskalila, with Deborah Houlding as special guest