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Love in Renaissance Rome

December 8, 2008

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This morning, as every year, I visited the traditional  Christmas books’ exhibition and I had the opportunity to attend a lecture about the star crossed love between Raffaello Sanzio, the famous painter and the beautiful Fornarina, made immortal by one of his paintings. Who was that woman is not clear but many say she was Agostino [...]

Jupiter in Cancer, year 1574

August 16, 2008

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An alchemical Villa

August 10, 2008

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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

Dan Brown reloaded

June 30, 2008

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Physiognomy ( physis, nature and gnomon, judge, interpreter) is a theory based upon the idea that the assessment of the person’s outer appearance, primarily the face, may give insights into one’s character or personality. The term physiognomy can also refer to the general appearance of a person, object or terrain, without reference to its implied [...]

Virgil’s Virgo

June 7, 2008

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Muses of Sicily, essay we now A somewhat loftier task! Not all men love Coppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods, Woods worthy of a Consul let them be. Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung Has come and gone, and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: Justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, With a new breed of men sent [...]

Under the Scorpio

April 19, 2008

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L’Allegoria dell’Amore e del Tempo - Bronzino, 1545 “Fece un quadro di singolare bellezza, che fu mandato in Francia al re Francesco, dentro il quale era una Venere ignuda con Cupido che la baciava, ed il Piacere da un lato e il Giuoco con altri Amori, e dall’altro la Fraude, la Gelosia et altre passioni d’amore” Giorgio [...]

Venus

March 31, 2008

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Perseus and Andromeda

February 15, 2008

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Cardano on fixed stars in De iudiciis geniturarum (1547)

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

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ABOUT STARS RISING WITH THE 12 SIGNS ACCORDING ALBUMASAR GREAT INTRODUCTION

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

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Some personal notes

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?"

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A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

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

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The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole

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:

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the astrological ceiling of Villa Farnesina in Rome

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

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MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC

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

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Stade on Fixed stars

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 the

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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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