On Chiromancy

[it signifies] life and a good constitution, but the opposite if it is short, thin, and poorly colored. The liver is one of the primary members for the preservation of life, from which the blood that nourishes the entire body emanates. If, therefore, the line which leads from it is well-proportioned at its origin, it is also a sign of a best-disposed proportion in the liver for the generation of the best blood. In this matter, this should be observed as a certain greatest precept: that any member is best when affected by a good disposition, and when the lines emanating from it are drawn most decorously; for it is necessary that the effect be assimilated to the cause. Now, the redness of this line signifies pure and clear blood, and consequently the restoration of the body, from which long-lasting life proceeds. But if it is disjointed and weak in color, due to an evil disposition of the liver generating bad blood, it will signify the opposite. And for that reason, it produces an imperfect line. And when the line of the liver is short and discontinuous with much redness in the part where it inclines toward the line of the head, it will denote an illness of the head emanating from the liver. But when it is at its beginning, approaching the line of life, it signifies an illness in the heart caused by the liver. When the triangle is decorously disposed and preserves its proportion with equal goodness in the lines, it signifies that the man will be long-lived and upright, especially when the angles are acute and disposed with beautiful proportion; but if the opposite is the case, it will signify the opposite in life and morals. But when the table is long and varied with small branches in the shape of a palm toward the mount of Jupiter (♃), it designates a body best disposed for health and a mind for goodness; the same is [true] as with those previously mentioned.