Just added a couple of English texts on palmistry: Richard Saunders, - Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed (1663) introduced by a some William Lilly and Rothman Keiromantia [sic]: or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. (1652). Richard Saunders George [...]
January 17, 2010
Stars at the border of Sagittarius, the three ones of third magnitude near or over the arrow, have a great influence in producing murderers. If they are well disposed they make heroes, men of war, tribunes, judges, responsible for other people’s death; if ill disposed, they make wardens, subordinates to magistrates, executioners, thieves. If they [...]
August 29, 2009
Andrea Argoli, born in Tagliacozzo in 1570 is very famous for his book about primary directions, the Tables of the primum mobile, (from which I took the picture ) 1. The following is my translation from Latin from another of Argoli’s main works, Two books about critical days and decumbiture of diseases2 revised and revisited by [...]
May 16, 2009
Fixed stars have a prominent part in traditional astrology: Ptolemy in the first book of Tetrabiblos lists them without giving any meaning, but we have several alternative sources for them, Manilius and Firmicus in the Latin world, Anonymous of 379 and two chapters from Liber Hermetis in the late Antiquity, and in the Middle Age and [...]
January 4, 2009
This is one of the most famous sermons and astrological texts written by Marsilio Ficino for Christmas 1482. Marsilio explains the birthchart of Jesus and the role of Magi: he dismisses the theory of Great Conjunction but he can’t renounce to one of the most known texts of Middle Ages, few lines from Albumasar’s Great Introduction. [...]
December 25, 2008
Luca Gaurico and Girolamo Cardano are two of the most important Italian astrologers, still they were always rivals and enemies. Gaurico lived in Rome at the court of Paul III, as Pope’s astrologer and courtier, because he was able to foresee for Alessandro Farnese the election as Pope, when the noble was not hoping for it [...]
October 15, 2008
Girolamo Cardano, doctor, mathematician, philosopher, scientist, is surely one of the most famous Italian astrologers. He is well known in the traditional astrology world especially for Lilly’s translation of chosen Aphorisms selected from Aphorismorum Astronomicorum segmenta septem but surely the greatest contribution Cardano gave to astrology was his Comment to Tetrabiblos, written after 1552 when he [...]
October 8, 2008
The following text is an English translation from a Spanish book written at the court of Alphonse the Wise around the second half of 13th century, and known as Vaticanus Reginensis 1283. Alfonso D’Agostino, in his edition of the book, identifies two main sources for the manuscript, Ghayat al-hakim and the Great Introduction of Albumasar. The Spanish manuscript shares [...]
August 8, 2008
Pseudo Pythagoras The book of Paranatellonta in Reginensis Vat. Lat. 1283 fol 1-8v. This is the first and likely the most important part of the selection of Spanish Medieval texts collected in the manuscript known as Reginensis Vat. Lat. 1283, written in the court of Alphonse the Wise around 1280. The illuminated book was discovered [...]
July 22, 2007
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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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