Prognostication for the Year 1472

especially guard his health in the last part of the year, because the stars decree for him the greatest destruction of misfortunes.
Word 19. Concerning the most serene King Ferdinand.

Regarding the most serene King Ferdinand, I had said in the judgment of the past year that he would be involved in various and troublesome businesses, upon which there was fear of a recent and new combination of wars, because he would not desist from his beginnings in part, and some other things that we narrated in the judgment of the past year happened. Those things, however, which we said regarding his son or wife have not yet passed—the influx of those constellations—but endure until the month of July next. But for the present revolution, I will say what the constellations predict about him. The most excellent King of Apulia, Ferdinand, by reason of the stars, is seen to set out on a journey and go forth armed for his own body with a spirit stronger than he is accustomed to, and indignant to accept those things, and will bring many to his own wishes, nor will he give his back to the enemies, but will afflict them now by land, now by sea. Regarding his own family, however, he will receive sadness and perhaps blood will be shed or suspected. The aforementioned things are clearly evident to the wise through the situation of his significators in the figures of the King's own revolution.

Word 20. Concerning the Turks.

The Turks will be greatly inclined toward journeys, and will make changes here and there with theft, damage, and robbery. Let them know, however, that they will be unfortunate in wars and totally overcome by Christians with their great flight and laceration or even bloodshed on land and sea. And in short, we shall see them fall not only from the city of Otranto, but also they will lose some camps or towns held by them for a long time. And some lords of those parts will perhaps be led in chains and will be lacerated, destroyed, and die by the hands of Christian soldiers. The great Turk, however, will be afflicted with a certain mental anxiety such that he will not know how to advise himself nor find a faithful counselor. We also perceive, according to the disposition of the stars, that he will fall into a certain hot illness or be struck by iron or a bad weapon in such a way that we believe this will be his final year. Likewise, he will be seized by the lust for a certain woman, and like Holofernes around Judith, to such a degree that, confused, he will, with his polluted mouth, curse the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of the whole human race while pursuing his own rabid power, just as Sennacherib, King of the Assyrians, who persecuted and blasphemed the God of heaven and earth, whose army of 180,000 men an angel killed in one single night. And finally, Sennacherib himself, turned to flight, while entering the temple of his own god in the city of Nineveh, was killed by his own sons; he will end badly. Let the most holy Lord, our vicar of God on earth, the most worthy successor of Peter, pastor of the Church, rejoice from this. Let the holy Senate of Cardinals and all Christ's faithful rejoice, because we see the God of heaven and earth, through the spirit and the stars, as the school of astrologers teaches, looking upon the Christians with clemency and mercy, especially in the present year, if there will be true penance in his servants, it will be prosperous; for the Lord knows how to change the judgment if He knows how to purge the faults of His creatures. All these things are taken by the figure of the root and the revolution of the great Turk himself. Also by the perfections and directions of the great conjunctions. Also by Mars and Leo, the significators. Also by the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars occurring shortly in the month of August in the sign of the ascendant of the great Turk. Similarly by the conjunction of Mars, their significator