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The chariot of Love in Petrarca Trionfi
September 11, 2008
Vedi Venere bella e con lei Marte, cinto di ferri i piè, le braccia e ’l collo, e Plutone e Proserpina in disparte; vedi Iunon gelosa, e ’l biondo Apollo che solea disprezzar l’etate e l’arco che gli diede in Tessaglia poi tal crollo. Che debb’io dir? In un passo men varco: tutti son qui in prigion gli dèi di Varro; e di [...]
The celestial vault of Alessandro Farnese
September 8, 2008
Haec, Auguste, tamen, quae vertice sidera pulsat, par domus est caelo sed minor est domino. Augustus, this Dome whose vault touches the stars and is so similar to the sky, nevertheless is inferior to his Lord. (Martial, Ephigrams VIII, 36) A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION When I wrote my thesis about “manifestations of luxury in Renaissance Italian buildings” some years [...]
Marsilio Ficino casts his horoscope
August 31, 2008
Reply to a friend asking Marsilio’s birthday You are asking me about my birthday; and if our Plotinus, to the friends that often asked him about it, never replied, I’m so touched of your love for me, that I can’t deny anything if not what I’m not able to do. My birthday was on 19th October 1433. About [...]
Pontano stars
August 18, 2008
AD STELLAM in tenebris, mea Stella, nites, dum sidera pallent, Et nox ipsa tuo lucida honore placet; In medio, mea Stella, die sub sole nitescis, Clarior et per te solque diesque uenit. Sic es sideribus decus addita matutinis, Et radiis debent solque diesque tuis. Sed cur, quae tenebris honor es, decus una diebus, Cur lumen nobis nocte dieque negas? Nocte negas foribus clausis, in [...]
Firmicus, and pictures and paranatellonta
August 14, 2008
Pictures are taken from the astrological representation of paranatellonta in Villa Te in Mantua,1527 ARIES Haedus is in the 20th degree of Aries toward the North…….Also from this star are born shepherds who make sweet songs to rustic pipes. TAURUS When the Pleiades are descending in the sixth degree ofTaurus, if this degree is attacked by malefic influence, [...]
An alchemical Villa
August 10, 2008
Yesterday I spent the night at Villa d’Este, the alchemical villa of Ippolito d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia son, Hercules offspring. Villa d’Este Aurora Consurgens
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Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)
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, subordinate
ABOUT STARS RISING WITH THE 12 SIGNS ACCORDING ALBUMASAR GREAT INTRODUCTION
Stars rising with portions of ecliptic, the so-called paranatellonta, have a central place in traditional astrology. Ancient texts give a lot of room to this subject, Manilius dedicated to paranatellonta the whole fifth book of his Astronomica, Firmicus lists them in two of the eight books of Mat
Some personal notes
A THIEF called ANTON GRIGORYEV Caesar divorced Pompeia at once, but when he was summoned to testify at the trial, he said he knew nothing about the matters with which Clodius was charged. His statement appeared strange, and the prosecutor therefore asked, "Why, then, didst thou divorce thy wife?"
A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions
Reading here and there I see that primary directions are seen as very difficult and occult. It is not like that. Ideas which are behind are very easy to grasp, and modern software can do all the calculation for us: on the other hand people who have learned them generally use them as a way to show ho
The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole
Since the Antiquity astrology (and prediction) was based on astronomical tables generally divided into three different parts collected together: tables of primum mobile, tables of planetary positions, eclipses; at the beginning of the Renaissance tables of primum mobile were separated from the rest:
the astrological ceiling of Villa Farnesina in Rome
This is the transcript of the lecture kept in Rome by me and Anton Grigoryev (who wrote the article with me) for the Congress/Competition of October 2006 organized by CIDA, the Italian Astrological Association . The Italian text has been published in the Winter 2006 issue of Linguaggio Astrale, t
MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC
Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance is music for life, the sound of work, war, happiness, sadness, love, prayer. [vimeo 2654494] The Litaniae Sanctorum are one of the oldest prayers of the Church. They were established by Gregorius the Great in 590 AD to stop the plague. A medieval legend
Stade on Fixed stars
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 theABOUT ME
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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