Le antichita
di Beroso Caldeo sacerdote et d'altri scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, [et] Latini, che trattano delle stesse materie.
Tradotte, dichiarate & con diverse utili & necessarie annotazioni, illustrate,
da M. Francesco Sansovino.
(The antiquities of the Chaldean priest Berossus, and of other writers, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, who treat of the same subjects. Translated, explained, and with various useful and necessary annotations, illustrated by M. Francesco Sansouino.)
By John Nanni
Venice, Altobello Salicato; 1583
8 leaves, 104 (recte) 112 numbered leaves.
With large woodcut printer's mark.
-BMC, T 1976. Hoffman I, 424. -
Original limp vellum, manuscript title to the spine
The "Chaldean Antiquities" of the priest Berossus of Babylon (340-270 BC) are taken from the books of the lost "Babyloniaka", the ancient history of Babylon.
Very good condition, minor wear
Size: 6 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches
Text in Italian

An unusual astrological work that includes the horoscopes of some forty renaissance royals, political, religious and military leaders, and scholars, from France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
It also explores mundane astrology - charting the effects of the stars on the fortune of nations, states, etc. mostly in terms of disasters such as famines, plagues, and political upheavals.
Thorndike describes it thus:
"The work which count Mauritius de Flisco published in 1665 on fate and fatal years of men and kingdoms, was classed by Morhof under superstitious astrology. In its preface the author tells of his other youthful astrological writings. Numerous genitures which are given include those of Giovanni Maria Visconti, born in 1388, Savonarola, Stoeffler, Pico della Mirandola, Cocles, Henries III and IV of France, and Gustavus Adolphus.
A dozen pages or so are devoted to physiognomy, metoposcopy, and chiromancy, and as many more to prodigies and portents.
Other topics considered are critical days and climacteric years, comets, and eclipses, fate in numbers and cubes of numbers, fate in kingdoms and the fall of Rome."
[Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol. VIII, pp. 325-326] Caillet 4019, Gardner 411.



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