On Chiromancy

[...tiores.] It signifies a person who is sluggish, slow, foolish, and arrogant; and the more so if the hand is broader in the palm. When a hand is long, large, and of a fitting proportion, it will signify a person who is generous, upright, endowed with great counsel, acute in intellect, and devoted to friends. If, with the hand extended, the fingers are closed together and so contiguous that no air can pass through, it will signify a curious and anxious person. But if the fingers are oblong, it signifies a greedy and malignant person, whose cunning tends rather to evil than to good, judging vices to be virtues and asserting himself to be upright when he is like a beast. An extended hand whose fingers are bony, dry, and hard to the touch and bent back [signifies] an unjust person, acute in intellect, and much more strongly inclined toward evil than toward good, especially if a scurfy skin is present. A hand whose fingers look toward each other at the extremity makes a man envious, yet toward good rather than evil: desirous of virtue and anxious in his own affairs. And when you find a person who strikes his fingers together while he is speaking, as if he were beating a drum, he will denote a man of varied thought and suspicion, and one wrapped in great malice. And when someone reaches out his hand to take something, and the hand itself trembles modestly, he quickly desists from anger, is of a good nature, respects modesty, but is somewhat choleric. When someone, while he is eating, reaches his hand toward the food but not toward his mouth, he is a glutton and filled with the worst of habits; of a bad nature, discordant with other men, and indignant. And when you find a man who holds his thumb clenched within his other fingers in a fist, it signifies a greedy person, who wishes to live by right and by wrong. A Mount of Venus that is tumid and high in someone’s hand will indicate a man of lu...