Prognosticon for 1485 and 1486

those who had it in their horoscope at birth original: "in eor natali habuerut" in the middle of their age, they are disposed to receiving these effects in the right parts of the body, the head, the eyes, and in men of good appetite. Its accident cannot be good, because the sun is the most powerful cause of generation and the life of men. The giants after the flood are, according to grace, the sun and the moon, since it is the cause of vital heat. The moon, however, concerns the vegetable, and its effect, besides what Ptolemy says, is the authority of Messahala, approved by all, who says that when there is a solar eclipse, it cannot happen, unless God operates otherwise, that it does not signify some great accident according to the magnitude of that eclipse. To know the accident is to know the ascendant of the eclipse and which of the planets rules it. If it is evil, as it is in this eclipse, it signifies evil: confusion, impediments, corruption of the air, and the death of kings and the wealthy, terrestrial instability, and famine. And when the sun and moon are significators or givers of years, they signify great peril or grave illness for them. The conjunction of Saturn and Mars, which will be on the 11th day of December of the present year, for which I was consulted, will indicate its effect largely in the following year. There is nothing in this prophecy that I can explain to you except that the conjunction is evil, and in the lands subject to Sagittarius and the fiery triplicity, and to its oppositions and squares, it will show the effect of its consultation through wars and the lack of provisions.

The Supreme Pontiff, from the revolution of his pontificate, may be seen to be destined for health and long journeys, and for the gathering of many peoples for his sanctity, and to sanction something in the reform of the Church, which may God look upon with the eyes of His mercy; for after the end of summer, it is seen that things are disposed toward the controversies of kings because of the solar eclipse, though one must be warned lest some sedition arise.

Regarding the Reverend Cardinals, it is not my intention, other than what I said in the previous year about some of them, to describe it before the month of September, to which time and beyond their revolution endures, and similarly others will follow the end of summer.

The most invincible Frederick, King of the Romans, has this year as a fatal one from those things that appear because of the solar eclipse.

The most Christian King of France, from the revolution of his nativity, is disposed toward the movement of arms, for neither will the Gauls rest from wars, and perhaps they will seem to invade the borders of Italy and attempt to infringe upon the peaceful state of Italy, and in his own kingdom, maritime movements may occur because of the future solar eclipse.

The most serene King of Spain, outside of Spain, will understand some part of his kingdoms to be invaded by barbarians, and he will suffer adversity because of the solar eclipse, and perhaps some