Prognostication for the Year 1472

...in which the plague has not recently flourished. And few who will fall ill from it will be freed, and the greater part of those who are afflicted will depart without much delay, especially because Venus and Mars, at the hour of the revolution of the world year, are in Taurus. Whence the aforementioned Haly says that this signifies epidemics, mortalities, slaughter by beasts, and strong winds.
There will also be many other sicknesses in summer and autumn, such as bloody fevers, flux of blood, swellings in the throat, spitting and defect of nature, quartan fevers, and recurring ones, double tertian fevers, and in the ends of the year acute fevers, flux of the bowels, and of other humors with dullness of the eyes. Also in women, flux of menses and pains of the womb. Some will labor with pains of the chest and some will die a sudden death. How many larger and smaller animals and species of birds will be infected and die. These conjunctions, however, are proven by considering the first sign of the great orb, namely Leo, in square to Mars and Venus in the revolution of the year. Also, the Sun, lord of the sign of Leo of the aforesaid orb, who is also the divider in this year, is irradiated from the opposite rays of Saturn, existing in the house of death, especially because the direction from the orb comes to the place of Saturn itself.
Also, the progression from the great conjunction preceding the birth of Christ comes this year to Aquarius, in which Saturn governs. It was the ascendant of the world year in opposition to the sign of the great orb, namely Leo. We know this from Albumasar in Great Conjunctions, first tractate, first and fifth division. And that the aforesaid effects regarding the infirmities that are to happen should occur, the solar eclipse most recently passed, made under the lordship of the misfortunes at the winter solstice in past years with the aspects of the superior planets to each other and their said places, confirm it. In this part, the words of Haly Embrahel in the eighth part of his book, chapter 21, are also considered, saying: that whoever are the lords of the two ascendants, and the Moon, and the lord of the place of the conjunction or prevention, all of these, or the greater part of them, being unfortunate, signifies epidemics and mortalities. And this he says because it will be according to the power of the fortune and the nature of it and the place in which they are made. But so it will be at the time of the revolution of the world year, because the lords of the two ascendants, namely the lord of the ascendant at the time of the conjunction of the luminaries preceding the Sun’s entry into Aries, and the lord of the ascendant at the time of the revolution of the world year, and the Moon, and the lord of the place of the conjunction of the luminaries, all will be unfortunate. How, therefore, they are unfortunate, briefly speaking, through the retrogradation of some of those significators and also their placement in figures as well as in cadent houses of the sky, and their applications, to the wise it may be clearly evident. And Haly also says that when in the revolution of the year the lord of the ascendant and the Moon are in the 6th and 8th houses, unfortunate, as he says now, that in that year there will be infirmities and mortalities, especially because the lord of the cusp of the house of death, existing in the ascendant, confirms this.

Handwritten marginal note: "misfortune"

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Seventh word: On war and peace among Christians, especially in Italy.
Wars cannot be removed from these parts because of the great conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter that have signified this. It is true, however, that they might threaten or be transferred from place to place. This can happen through special constellations that follow. I say, therefore, that this year men are more inclined to peace than to disputes and wars. I am speaking of Christians, because about the infidels or the Turks I shall make a special chapter in a suitable place when we speak of them. Nor do I judge that there will be any promotions of arms and homicides in some...