LUDOVICI SFORTIAE DUCIS MILANI

HIERONYMI CARDANI - DE EXEMPLIS CENTUM GENITURARUM

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  LUDOVICI SFORTIAE DUCIS MILANI (1452-1508)

See [Gauricus, Tractatus astrologiae, 50, 8h55 PM ; Garcaeus, 355, id. ; Junctinus, 495b]. See also : History of universites, vol. xxiii/2, the politic of prognostications, Monica Azollini, pp. 6-34]

LUDOVIC (Ludovico Maria) Sforza, known as Moro, Duke of Milan. - He was born in Milan, in the palace of the Arengo, in 1452 (and not in 1451 as the date of Bernardino Corio), on August 3 (and not in the castle of Vigevano on July 27), fourth of six male sons of Duke of Milan Francesco by Bianca Maria Visconti. Resuming, for the name, to the choice of her husband, her father recommended that she be called "Charles": "Our son Charles," actually referred to the newborn. But the onomastic preference did not come to an end, although Carles and Carolus remained some chronicle; Instead, the name was valid for Ludovico followed by Mary (as it is for the older brothers Galeazzo, Filippo, Sforza and as it will be for the little Ascanio), according to the will of the mother particularly devoted to the Virgin, and the official one therefore used in the cards public, in diplomacy, in coins, in the Civil Statute - edited in Milan in 1498 - reformed by Ludwig Maria Sfortia. "Lodovicus Maria vice comes" was signed by L. quindicenne. [...] When their father Francesco died in 1466, the family titles devolved upon the dissolute Galeazzo Maria, the elder brother, whilst Ludovico was conferred the courtesy title of Count of Mortara.
Galeazzo Maria ruled until his assassination in 1476, leaving his titles to his seven-year-old son, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Ludovico's nephew. A bitter struggle for the regency with the boy's mother, Bona of Savoy, ensued; Ludovico emerged as victor in 1481 and seized control of the government of Milan, despite attempts to keep him out of power. For the following 13 years he ruled Milan as its Regent, having previously been created Duke of Bari in 1479. [...] In January 1491, he married Beatrice I d'Este (1475-1497) the youngest daughter of Ercole d'Este Duke of Ferrara, in a double Sforza-Este marriage, while Beatrice's brother, Alfonso d'Este, married Anna Sforza, Ludovico's niece. Leonardo da Vinci orchestrated the wedding celebration. Beatrice and Alfonso’s sister, Isabella d'Este (1474–1539) was married to Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua. [...]
His stroke of bad luck is the death of his wife Beatrice during the birth of a stillborn child, January 2, 1497. It is buried in the apse of the church Santa Maria delle Grazie.[...]
Taken on 17 April. 1500, from the castle of Novara, L. was translated - for Asti (where he was screamed against "to death") and Susa - in Lyon, where he arrived on May 2nd. Louis XII, who would refuse every encounter, wanted a humiliating entrance for L .: surrounded by archers, on a mula, with a "zambeloto vest". Temporarily housed in the castle of Pierre Encise, L. was later transferred to the mighty Lys Saint-George castle in Berry, near Bourges. Here, in March 1501, the regional physician "maistro Salomon" described it as "macro", with the "hollow eyes". But then the adaptation to imprisonment prevailed, if - as he said in October 1502, Domenico Trevisan, returning to Venice from the French Embassy - L., in that "prexon castle", played cards and crossbow and caught " pit, "being" greasy than ever ". The surveillance he was subjected to was narrower after a miserable escape attempt and in 1504 he was transferred to the Castle of Loches, in Turada.Here, L. died, "Catholics and Good Christians," on May 17, 1508.

 We see that in this life, there is little room for dream, the entities or the spirit love of the study of stars... It is above all a life of combat, rough, not devoid of deceit, sometimes violent. The end of the Duke is entirely dominated by the conditions linked to his arrest and detention. We can estimate that the axis MC-IC will be preferred in this geniture.
He was not ill, strictly speaking; its theme is quite good from this point of view as we will see here.

In Lucas Gauricus’ Tractatus  Astrologicus (Venice,  1552) Ludovico’s  horoscope  speaks  of  being  “figlio  del padre”  and  mentions  Francesco  Sforza, the  father,  as  a  point  of  reference.  These  points, superb parental traits and a favorable astrological chart fed Ludovico’s boasts about being the invincible darling of Fortuna, lucky in all he undertook. [LUDOVICO IL MORO, DUKE OF MILAN, AND THE SFORZIADA BY GIOVANNI  SIMONETTA IN WARSAW D. R. Edward Wright]
Cf. too : AZZOLINI,  Monica.  “Reading  Health  in  the  Stars:  Politics  and  Medical  Astrology  in
Renaissance  Milan,”  in  Guenther  Oestmann,  H.  Darrel  Rutlein,  Kocku  von  Stuckrad  eds.,
Horoscopes  and  Public  Spheres,  Walter  de  Gruyter,  Berlin,  2005,  p.  199.

• ASC ARIES, ruler MA (I)
• MC CAPRI, SA (VII)
• # radix MA-MO - opp. MA-SA
• VE LIBRA, ruler ; JU PISCES, ruler ; SU LEO, ruler

For Morinus, the ALMUTEN is MA. The detrimental planet is MO.

In five days, from 7 to 11 September 1479, the More succeeded in seizing power in the ducal city of Milano:

1)- MA conj MO

We have two primary directions with C MA conj MO and VE conj SU (Morinus 1478).

See that we have results + uniquely with latitude, i.e. mundane directions.

overall results - primary and mundane Rp
1	C Regio Campa	2
2	D Placidus	2
1	D Regio Campa
0	C Placidus
4
	1478,19
fictitious	C MA opp. SU	Dir
1	D – AR	1
0	AO	0
0	Gold Regio	0
0	Gold Placid	0
1	Symb	1
2
	Rp
fictitious		Dir
0	AR <--→ Campa	0
0	AO <----→ Regio	0
0	Symb <----→ Placid	0

2)- 1500 :SU opp MC

This is a characteristic direction of a break. It has already been noticed in accident themes.

 and we have also a characteristic associated direction: MA opp SU, i.e. the HYLEG opposite to the ALCHOCODEN.

3)- MA opp SU. (Morinus 1493, PTO)

But by then, his luck seemed to have run out. On 3 January 1497, as the result of a difficult childbirth, Beatrice, his wife, died. Ludovico was inconsolable, and the entire court was shrouded in gloom. Ludovico had also hoped by involving the French, and Maximilian I, in Italian politics, he could manipulate the two and reap the rewards himself, and was thus responsible for starting the Italian Wars. At first, Ludovico defeated the French at the Battle of Fornovo in 1495 (making weapons from 80 tons of bronze originally intended for the colossal equestrian statue commissioned by the duke from Leonardo da Vinci in honour of Francesco I Sforza). However, with the death of Charles, the French throne was inherited by his cousin, Louis of Orléans, who became Louis XII of France. The new king had a hereditary claim to Milan, as his paternal grandmother was Valentina Visconti, daughter of Giangaleazzo Visconti, the first Duke of Milan. Hence in 1498, he descended upon Milan. As none of the other Italian states would help the ruler who had invited the French into Italy four years earlier, Louis was successful in driving out Ludovico from Milan. Ludovico managed to escape the French armies and, in 1499, sought help from Maximilian.

Ludovico returned with an army of mercenaries and re-entered Milan in February 1500. Two months later, Louis XII laid siege to the city of Novara, where Ludovico was based. The armies of both sides included Swiss mercenaries. The Swiss did not want to fight each other and chose to leave Novara. Ludovico was handed over to the French in April 1500. [wikipedia]

direction	promissor	significator
C MA opp. SU	MA	opp. SU
long	20,91 S E	319,91 N E
lat	-4,005	0,000
AR	20,820	322,339
dec	4,473	-14,885
ha	4,438	-0,825
OA	16,286	306,759
dom Campa	7,999	338,560
dom Regio	11,298	330,826
Dom Placidus	11,804	327,158
pôle Regio	44,739	41,423
pôle Campa	44,739	41,423
Pôle Placidus	41,290	32,884
DM D|N	D |105,743 - N |74,257	D |47,263 - N |132,74
DA pôle D|N	D |5,072 - N |3,939	D |9,895 - N |19,588
DA	4,534	15,581
SA D|N	D |94,53 N |85,47	D |74,42 N |105,58
D Horiz	11,21	27,16
Htd*	14,244	12,403
DH**	-5,213	3,811
TS	275,077	18:20:18,4
lat geo,	45,300
eclip	23,511
birth year	1452
event year	1500
*  temporal hour (= 1/6e Sad)	** horary distance, (= mundane positions, see Giuseppe Bezza)

results

The ray speculum allows to show rays 'in extremis' between key [1.027-1.045] corresponding to step 1 / AR and 1 / EQU. The table shows that in another way :

So we find 2 rays of Placidus direction and 1 fictitious Goldmayer Placidus. If we take the inverse, i.e. promissor MA and SU significator, we have only 1 placidus direction in mundane Placidus. 


So we see that this direction of MA opp SU (or C opp MA conj SU) immediately preludes to the fall of Sforza. It is situated at a time which corresponds exactly to what can be expected, from the point of view of phenomenology, of astrology.