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TO THE MOST EXCELLENT

MEN

EUSTACHIO RUDIO

Physician and Philosopher,

AND

AGOSTINO CIMATORIO

Brothers-in-law.

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A decorative initial letter 'C' featuring a central ornate vase or urn within a circular frame, surrounded by decorative scrollwork.

Since this second booklet of Praesagiorum Presages, or Rotarum Diuinantium Divining Wheels (if one may call them that), was to be published as an appendix to the former work, it has been awaited with great interest amidst this daily novelty of affairs. It will be, I believe, not unpleasant to those who desire new things and to those who are accurate investigators of future events. Therefore, I have dedicated it to you two without any room for doubt. For I do not think I should imitate the practice of those who, when they publish something, strive to find some great patron for the book who is conspicuous not for the splendor of virtue, but for the magnitude of fortune. Rather, I think that in this matter, one must take account of either friendship or virtue, which, if they are joined in someone...