Prognostication for the Year 1495

¶ If all things are not observed by princes and great men or potentates, in the end there will be deceit with a league against the other King of the clergy This likely refers to a specific temporal ruler or papal faction..

¶ Discord and anger in the other army is to be feared greatly hereafter: which, if it is not provided for quickly, will be the cause of [the army's] undoing.

¶ The army of the French will ruin a part of Italy with iron and fire, unless the princes of Italy provide for it beforehand and open their eyes.

¶ In our sea there will be invasions around the shores: where there will be fear and great alarm above the effect, although sometimes it will be strong: For the seas will be seen armed with fleets. Truly, after the present, the fleets for the time will be retracted and exhausted on account of the killing of men and the loss of great ships or their undoing with the loss of the powerful: they will bring the opinion of a league to some.

¶ Our Mediterranean Sea and in part afterwards the Adriatic will rage with dire tempests and storms: so much so that it will be most infested for ships and fleets.

¶ Many and great legates will be moved into many parts, revolving new and various things.

¶ In a part of Italy, let a prince fear, and in a place of war while he is there: lest he should fall into the power of another prince or into another difficult case of life and safety.

¶ The great-souled, angry, and intrepid King of Eastern Italy will be [active] this year: and he will attack the fight, conflicts, and enemies with a high spirit: where he will do a wonderful thing once hereafter. Truly, he will consider or pay heed to dangers less at times, and it may be expedient for himself and his Kingdom. Whence if he intends to be saved now, let him not follow certain first furies and impulses beyond reason: because he would place the Kingdom in danger. If, however, he will observe these things, the opposite will be.

¶ Soldiers and leaders of the army will be observed everywhere, to be avoided by many. Truly, they will be affected by many terrors and changes. So also warlike sailors, many of whom will perish beyond belief and in unexpected cases.

¶ The Italians, and especially the Easterners, will be exposed to conflicts with great soul and strength, with boldness and intrepid ferocity, with the greatest desire to win, and especially those who have had Leo or the Sun strong for themselves and also dwell under the lands of Leo: as are the noble Romans: who will fight with supreme magnanimity and virtue in wars, with the spoils of enemies made famous.