Marsilio Ficinoâs Early Astrological Practices (ca.Â 1469â1489): A Preliminary Survey

HÂ Darrel Rutkin

ChapterÂ 9 Marsilio Ficinoâs Early Astrological Practices (ca.Â 1469â1489): A Preliminary Survey

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The brief of this chapter is straightforward: to gather together, describe and analyze an instructive and suggestive but by no means comprehensive selection of the reasonably extensive evidence for Marsilio Ficinoâs astrological practices in his earlier period (ca.Â 1469â1489) thatâperhaps surprisinglyâhas never been fully marshalled. This includes the valuable evidence in his pre-De vita (1489) works for nativities, revolutions and elections, three of the four canonical types of practical astrology. There are apparently no interrogationsâthe fourth and most controversial type of astrological practiceânor do we have any manuscript horoscopes of any sort in his own hand, nor any notes or calculations related thereto. Although these surely may exist, they have not yet been identified, despite Ficinoâs hand being quite well known, and there having been a great deal of scholarship in the last century on Ficinoâs manuscript NachlaÃ, as well as on a broad range of Latin astrological manuscripts.

Regardless, there are numerous traces of practical astrology in Ficinoâs extensive writingsâmostly publishedâwhich have never been properly gathered together and treated as such. Focusing almost exclusively on Ficinoâs extensive correspondence, this is the main contribution I intend to make in this chapter, although it will certainly not be exhaustive, and it will only treat the earlier part of Ficinoâs engagement with astrology (ca.Â 1469â1489), and even at that it will not be comprehensive. Further evidence may then be co-ordinated with this partial but I hope useful treatment in an eventually comprehensive study that should be closely co-ordinated with the full range of Ficinoâs writings and within the context of his biography and career, for which this is a preliminary contribution.

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Astrologers at Work

Essays on the Practices and Techniques of Astrology in Memory of Helena Avelar

Reihe:Â Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, Band: 14

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 20 Nov 2025

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ChapterÂ 9 Marsilio Ficinoâs Early Astrological Practices (ca.Â 1469â1489): A Preliminary Survey