BEZZA Giuseppe

jeudi 24 août 2017

BEZZA Giuseppe

Giuseppe BEZZA (1946-2014) was an historian of astrology absolutely extraordinary who, in addition to making history, practiced an authentic research in practical astrology, as testify the articles published on the site that had created: Cielo e Terra. He has published and worked hard for the astrological cause. It is cited by all present historians of astrology. Here is a list of some of these works. Cf. also http://facultelibredastrologiedeparis.blogspot.fr/search/label/Giuseppe Bezza.

Astrologia, storia e metodi, Milano 1981.
Commento al primo libro della Tetrabiblos di C. Tolemeo. Con una nuova traduzione e le interpretazioni dei maggiori commentatori, Milano 1992.
Arcana Mundi. Antologia del pensiero astrologico antico, 2 voll., Milano 1995.
Le dimore celesti. Segni e simboli dello zodiaco, Milano 1998.
Sulla tradizione del thema mundi. Atti del Convegno G. Schiaparelli storico dell'astronomia (Milano 1997), Milano 1999.
Una natività a scopo didattico, Conferenze ISIAO 1998, Roma, (in corso di pubblicazione).
Du calendrier naturel à l'astrologie. Quelques observations sur la prevision du temps dans la littérature arabe du Moyen Age, Actes du V Séminaire Maroco-Italien, Unesco, Cosenza 1999
Un glossario astrologico bizantino, Convegno di studi Storia della scienza e beni culturali, Ravenna 1998
Caratteri propri ed acquisiti dell'astrologia araba, Conferenze ISIAO 1998, Roma

Here is also the summary of his thesis on historical questions on astrology (dir (Jean Dhombres, 2003).

The thesis deals with a particular area of the history of science: astrology, with the aim of presenting the opinions of astrology The most remarkable ones proposed by historians on the birth of astrology in the ancient Near East and its development during the Antiquity It is difficult, if not impossible, to establish with precision the beginning of a historiography of the " Astrology, in fact, antiquity itself offers us some examples: for Greece, in particular, the biography of astrologers attributed to Rhetorios, for Islam the summary of Al-Qifti, for the Middle Ages Simon de Phares, for the Renaissance Pic de la Mirandole, for the XVIIth century Claude Saumaise In this work, I chose to take into account that the historiography which has just developed by schools of thought and which has the proper means to evaluate Texts and documents.

ASC VIRGO, ruler ME (I) and SU in I
MC GEMINI, ruler ME
conj SA-MO in LEO

fixed stars :

PRISIPE conj MO (domitude Campanus 319°) [Wounds, stabs (operations), imprisonment, injuries to the face, sickness, blindness or eye injuries especially if Saturn or Mars be with Regulus. [Robson, p.188.]
ALKAID conj SU (domitude 27°39') [In accordance with adopted belief of ancient times, this fixed star is supposed to be bound up with the realm of the dead and is therefore associated with death and mourning.]
ANTARES conj IC (domitude 86°22')