The following text was written by Franz Boll in 1917 and has been translated from Italian from a collection of chosen essays. 1. The original version is published in the Neue Jahrbucher, XXXIX, 1917, page 19 et ff, as Astronomische Beobachtungen im Altertum. It is especially dedicated to lovers of fixed stars, of which Boll is surely [...]
April 16, 2010
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 [...]
February 24, 2009
In the moment everybody is looking in the sky for the Comet Lulin, I believe of some interest reading what a Medieval astrologer wrote about the famous Halley comet in 1301. This passage was so famous that many scholars believe that the Italian painter Giotto painted Halley comet in his painting for the Scrovegni [...]
February 17, 2009
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 Mathesis, and the list of 30 stars given by [...]
February 7, 2009
The following is the translation from Latin of an horary question asked to the prophet- astrologer Annius of Viterbo. The querent is Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan, who was inquiring about the health of his enemy Don Ferrante of Aragon, King of Naples, who was sick in his bed. Planetary positions as given in the Latin [...]
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 27, 2009
As we saw in these days with Obama’s oath(s) – the first problem for an astrologer is determining the true moment of birth, whatever event we are talking about. Placidus writes some interesting considerations in his Coelestis Philosophia (1650):
January 20, 2009
Ptolemeus de stellis cum caudis- BN-Paris 7432 Ptolemy says that tailed stars are nine. First veru, second tenaculum, third pertica, quarta miles, fifth dominus Aschone, sixth matuta seu aurora, seventh argentum, eighth rosa, ninth nera.
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 27, 2008
Yesterday in a forum I stumbled upon a thread about the quality of astrological translations. I will not quote neither the forum nor the translator they were talking about because he is known in the astrological world - this is the Christmas spirit - especially because he always writes about philological exactitude. This is a point [...]
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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