Prognostication for the Year 1482

...and villages, trampled in such a short time by their wicked rage. If they had done so, they would certainly have arrived, even after the great labors, expenses, and anxieties of the Christians, as far as the recovery of the city of Constantinople and beyond. For it was good to fight against them then, because they had the most unfortunate stars. It pleased the Most High, however, that the matter remained as it was. But to narrate what the stars portend this year concerning his cursed heir and successor who now rules that imperial city of Constantinople: because we do not have his nativity but only the day and hour of his elevation to the aforesaid imperial city, as is known to us by suitable information, therefore we will judge now according to that figure. That aforementioned dog, therefore, from the disposition of the stars in the figures, unless he makes concord with the eastern power, will not be seen to be overcome entirely by enemies. Since we see that prison and slaughter and many inconveniences are being brought upon his soldiers and subjects by one king or another great lord, according to the influence of the stars. And in the month of July or thereabouts, expecting and prevailing, they will die violently, and finally that cursed one will incur, not death, but I do not know what other sudden evil. For these things are clear to the wise through the figure of the root and the revolution of the same, and also through the solar eclipse past and to be held in the present year, similarly and through the conjunctions of the superiors, the directions and the perfections of the great conjunctions and the aspects of the planets in those figures as they are known to the wise.

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Chapter 15, concerning Rome and those who inhabit it.

About to speak a word concerning the state of certain cities and provinces, I thought it should begin first with the city of Rome, in which I took my origin, and that especially because it is more excellent than all the cities of the world, whose praises I have decided to pass over in silence for now.

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The Roman citizens, and generally all who inhabit it, will fare well this year in visiting churches and sacred things, and some will obtain praise and utility from great prelates, kings, and princes more than usual. And the Romans will prepare themselves for journeys, in which they will receive honor, yet according to the disposition of the stars, they will not be free from certain pestilential infirmities. And from those sicknesses about which I made mention earlier in Chapter 4 in the general section, it is necessary that a great part occur in this illustrious city. Whence also bloody sicknesses and pains of the eyes, and some proceeding from the material of pure melancholy, such as titiane a type of skin eruption/boil, and pains proceeding from blood, will appear in many ways, and especially I speak of inguinal sicknesses and carbuncles. But in most places, these will occur more than here. These conclusions, however, are proved, speaking briefly, through the situation and the place of the sign of Leo, the significators of the Romans themselves in the figures of the revolution in the houses of the heaven. And through the existence or disposition of its lord, namely the Sun, in the competent places...