Prognosticon for 1489

¶ The magnificent Sienese and their significator, being well disposed in all four quarters of the year, seem to enjoy peace, wealth, and prosperous health. And they will be disposed toward marriages and the procreation of children. Generally speaking, this year is good for them.

¶ We give the same judgment for the Bolognese as for the Sienese.

¶ The people of Lucca and the Genoese have the first quarter of the year as hostile: the people of Lucca on account of Mars in Cancer, the significator of their city, with Saturn in opposition to that sign, will be vexed by pestilence and seditions, and perhaps by war. The Genoese, however, are similarly infested on account of Mars, their significator, because he is in opposition to Saturn.

¶ The illustrious Hercules Hestensis, Duke of Ferrara, both he and his people have a year infested by pestilence, the inundation of rivers, and sedition or wars. If anyone considers the state of Italy, such a war seems impossible, yet there is a strong constellation for it, and [he is liable] to suffer from a choleric humor, or from a latent disease such as pain of the ilium or colic.

¶ His most illustrious wife has a year that is overly troublesome, and she will suffer grief from the death of her own people.

¶ The illustrious lord Lodovico Sforza is secure from adverse health, according to what the revolution of his nativity indicates. If the angle of the seventh and fourth houses and their lords are unfortunate, they decree grave impediments for him; and the lord of the third house of his nativity in the twelfth house, as Haly says, threatens the danger of death to one of his brothers.

¶ The illustrious Duke of Urbino will see his people safe from wars and pestilence. Saturn, however, decrees for him a rather long period of poor health. And the seventh house and its lord, being unfortunate, threaten those of his own house.

¶ The illustrious Lord of Forlì, from the enthronement of his dominion, seems to suffer gravely in his state because of pestilence, seditions, and wars, concerning which there is a great and strong constellation of the heavens; and also, [he is] adverse to his illustrious mother. Let him provide against hidden enemies so that he might not receive any trouble either in his state or in his person. For I see him being fatigued by various misfortunes.