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Mark wrote:
Margherita wrote:

For example Lichtenberger Pronosticatio.

I know you have put a lot of research into that. Is there anything on your website on it?

No, it was an Italian article.

Pronosticatio case is emblematic.
It was copied-pasted from a previous Latin text of Paul of Middleburg, and soon published under Lichtenberger name in Latin and modern languages, and widespread both side of Alps, the Catholic and Reformed countries.

Aby Warburg reviewed a copy where to the image of the two monks with the little devil a Renaissance hand added the names of Luther and Melanchton, but on the other hand the same Luther wrote a preface for the German edition in 1527.

Margherita wrote:

Of Medieval texts in addition to the ones mentioned by Olivia, there is the Castillian version of Picatrix (more or less) written in the Court of Alphonse the Wise, now is kept in the Vatican Library.

Any date for that Margherita? Do we know who the translator was?

Mark[/quote]

It is not a translation for what I know, it was written directly in Castillian, and it is not exactly the missing link between the Arab and the Latin version of Picatrix, but it is obviously born in the same entourage, the court of Alphonse the Wise, around 1280. Some parts clearly repeat Albumasar decans, and there is the famous chapter about the images of paranatellonta, which I translated some years ago:

http://heavenastrolabe.net/hermes-book- ... atellonta/

it's a very nice booklet, some years was printed the Medieval Spanish text with the Italian translation,

margherita

Since there seems to be some confusion regarding the editions of Claude Dariot's work on astrology and their dates, I just wanted to clear it up:

The work first appeared in Latin in 1557.

A French translation appeared the following year, 1558.

The English translation first appeared in 1583 but excluded Dariot's treatise on medical astrology that was a part of the original Latin edition.

The English translation was reprinted in 1598, bound with an entirely separate treatise on medical astrology written in English by a G. C. (and thus predating William Lilly's 'Christian Astrology' as a printed astrological treatise originally written in English by 49 years).

It was reprinted again in 1653 together with both G C.'s treatise and some new material by another author, under the collective title 'Dariotus Redivivus'.

Any references to an English edition from before 1583 are in error.