Prognostication for the Year 1482

Chapter 20: Concerning the City of Forlì

The people of Forlì will be sufficiently strong this year. And if it happens that they take up arms, they will conquer their enemies. They will not, however, be secure from infections; rather, they will be agitated by various infirmities. And some of the citizens of that city will meet a death that is perhaps not natural, or at least they will fall into danger similar to death. Oh, how many fathers also in those parts will be saddened for their children, and miscarriages will occur. The same is to be understood of Cortona, Montia, Lodi, Ferrara, and Piacenza.

Chapter 21: Concerning the City of Naples

The Neapolitan citizens will sustain various and diverse sicknesses this year, and they will be of little faith; strife and discord will fall among them. They must take great precautions against conflagrations, and their land possessions and their fruits will receive damage, and every desired hope of anyone whomsoever will be frustrated. We can understand the same of Genoa, Ascoli, Fermo, and, according to some, Pistoia.

Beyond the above, I foresee that this year will not pass without great enmities, discords, thefts, infections, and quarrels, and many accidents will happen to men, such that some prodigy will perhaps appear in the air, especially in the second half of the year toward winter. And we believe that two great lords, one beyond the mountains and the other from the parts of Italy, will depart from life, however and from wherever it may happen, whose names and dominions I reserve for myself for now. Also, I see great damage and gravity in Italy on account of children, and not a few women will miscarry and will have pains and sadnesses. And many will mourn the death of one great lady.

Chapter 22: Concerning the oppositions and conjunctions of the whole year, and concerning the days most disposed toward some alteration.

We are now approaching a very difficult and tedious matter, as we have testified in other years, which is to treat the disposition of the air. The astrologer is much to be excused in this part because the air is very variable. Therefore, just as we have said in other judgments, when we say that around such a day there will be rain, wind, or some other alteration, we mean that the day mentioned, the day preceding, and the day following are included, so that on any one of those days such a disturbance or alteration of the air may occur, whether it be winds, clouds, fogs, rains, hail, and the like. And although we say and intend that we have spoken of the aforesaid days, nevertheless in some seasons of the year all can undergo alteration and corruption in sequence.