Prognosticon for 1485 and 1486

and perhaps generating pestilence. The summer also, in its beginning, will incline toward humidity, with some rains around the middle of June until the end of that month. Autumn, however, will be very dry after its middle, and there will be a moderation of winds. The beginning of winter will be strong with western winds. January will have its own qualities, and in the month of February there will perhaps be some earthquakes, and the end of winter will be cold and snowy. And because Mars runs through an airy sign and Saturn enters Sagittarius, they indicate that sudden winds will arise, and earthquakes, and fiery torches appearing in the air, or comets, especially aiding the solar eclipse.

Third: Regarding fertility.

This year will not be fertile, as the previous one was, for in the month of May, and because of the heavens disposed by the motions that will arise in Italy, the price of grain appears to be increasing. But in this province, the price of grain will decrease from that which it is now. Indeed, in Etruria and the kingdom of Apulia, it will be the contrary. The price of wine, honey, and oil will increase, and there will be a small supply of them.

Italy, Spain, Gaul, Sicily, and Turkey with Dalmatia will not be quiet from wars this year, for disputes and dissensions will be stirred up in many parts of those provinces, especially in Apulia and the land of Otranto, or the kingdom of the Neapolitans. Foreign peoples, and perhaps even the Milanese and the Boi people of Bologna, will entangle them twice in difficulties, or parts of Tuscany, and likewise places in Apulia and Calabria will be seized by the Turks, especially the cities that are under Gemini and Sagittarius and are subject to Aries and their oppositions and squares, because of Mars, the lord of the year, and its opposition to Jupiter. And there will be a slaughter of men by men who will attempt to oppress others, such as by the French or by the Turks. Saturn also, retrograde in the middle of the heaven, reintegrates the war, for kings or great dukes of foreign nations will rise up who will move the war. And because of the projections I mentioned, which reach necessary places, and as much as is permitted to astrologers, because the conjunction that signifies the advent of Christ has significance in the Christian people, and because of the projection thereof, it indicates perhaps some reorganization in the Church of God. And the Mahometans will change something of their own law and will adhere somewhat more to the Christian religion than they did in previous years, since the ascendant of that sect was Scorpio, in which this conjunction took place, and its projection reached to Taurus, to