One of the most interesting chapters in astrology is the assessment of temperament. Unfortunately there are no so many original texts at disposal of students of our Art, so I decided to translate - I don’t know for the rest, maybe in the future- some pages from “La fisonomia dell’homo e la celeste”, The physiognomy [...]
October 18, 2009
In Medieval Latin the word “medicamentum simplex” was a single herb used as a medicament while several herbs used together were called a “medicamentum compositum. “ From this Medieval abbeys gardens and later universities gardens where herbs were cultivated for study and medical use were called “Hortus Simplicium“, gardens of simple (medicaments).
August 23, 2009
Love illness is currently understood like a venereal disease, but this is not its traditional meaning, which is was on the other hand well known from Galen to Renaissance and more, till the theory of four humors was rejected, and it was called amor hereos. Amor hereos or love sickness is the idea that one cannot [...]
June 27, 2009
Yesterday evening the gentle author of this blog visited the presentation of the book “L’enigma del manoscritto Voynich“, the enigma of Voynich manuscript. a book about the famous manuscript, one of the greatest riddles of the history, in the most famous esoteric bookshop in Rome.
May 22, 2009
A while ago I had the opportunity of visiting in Rome a true factory of perfumes of antiquity with its products: the factory of Pyrgos in the southern part of the island of Cyprus. The myth tells us about Venus, the goddess of beauty and love: when she arose from the foam of the sea, the [...]
April 1, 2009
With the rain and with the wind under the Benevento’s tree (ancient spell) If every nation has its own witches and devils, the story says from every angle of the world these wicked souls meet under the walnut of Benevento, an ancient city between the mountains of Sannio, in the heart of southern Italy. Romans called this [...]
March 5, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I attended a lecture about Tithi organized by our Italian Astrological Association. I’m absolutely new to Vedic astrology, so I will take the definition from Wikipedia, I don’t know more than this in fact. A Tithi is “a lunar day, or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between [...]
February 3, 2009
The legend states that this famous medical school was founded around 1000 AD by four pilgrims, experts in herbs, traditional remedies and medicine: a Greek one, a Latin one, a Jew and a Muslim. Surely it was the first medical institution in Europe and the first of European Universities. The most famous treatise produced in the [...]
January 8, 2009
The motion of the Sun and the Moon - in the zodiac and in the day causes the generation of all the bodies under the sky. The kind of generation is determined by the quality of stars: planets, starred images, comets generate all the alterations occurring in primeval qualities, hot and cold, and dry and wet. [...]
July 20, 2008
The formula of Teriaca derives directly from Galen. De Theriaca ad Pisonem was one of the most read and commented parts of Galen texts in the Renaissance. .Essendo dunque già nel corpo humano entrato il veneno…hanno stimato i medici rationali che, mettendovi dentro un altro veneno, facilmente si smoverebbe per andare a trovare il suo [...]
My name is Margherita Fiorello from Rome, Italy.
I graduated with a thesis on Renaissance villas in Papal Kingdom and I have been engaged in traditional astrology since ten years. Currently I'm studying astrology with Giancarlo Ufficiale, one of the founders of CieloeTerra- Prof. Giuseppe Bezza's traditional astrology group. I'm a member of CieloeTerra and a certified CIDA member. More about me in the bio.
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