Alfonso d'Este

Alfonso d'Este 

(1527 – 1587) fu un nobile ferrarese.

Born at Ferrara, he was the illegitimate son of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara by his lover Laura Dianti. In 1523 his father gave him Montecchio Emilia and turned it into a feudal inheritance for cadet members of his family – in 1569 it was promoted to a marquessate by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Alfonso was legitimated in 1532 by cardinal Innocenzo Cybo and in 1533 by his father Alfonso I.His first marriage followed on 3 January 1549, to Giulia della Rovere, daughter of Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino and Eleonora Gonzaga. In 1584 he married Violante Signa, though that marriage remained childless.
He died at Ferrara in 1587.

I. where does this chart come from ?

https://heavenastrolabe.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/divisors-chronocrators-almutens-and-more-in-a-renaissance-geniture/

II. Natal chart

This chart has been the subject of a thorough analysis by an anonymous astrologer; Grazia Bordoni has given the substance in an article where several excerpts highlight the way to look for valuation factors: HYLEG and ALCHOCODEN. The anonymous astrologer retains MO for HYLEG and VE for ALCOCODEN. The examination of the chart shows a lonely ASC, JU in X and MO in CANCER (master in XI). It is also noted that VE is combust and almost in exile. JU is in exile (GEMINI) and SA is in a fall (ARIES). Finally, ME is particularly weak in ARIES.

• ASC LEO, ruler SU (VIII)
• MC TAURUS, ruler VE (VIII)
• conj VE, SU (VE USB)

Morinus gives JU for ALMUTEN. We can't purpose SU as HYLEG ; so HYLEG is MO (ruler of CANCER in XI). ME is bad disposed ; if not, it will be the ALCHOCODEN as there is TRI between MO and ME. So, it seems that the ALCHOCODEN may be VE, despite the fact that VE is USB ...

III. Primary directions

A. opp VE conj MA

 1. parameters

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> M D Placidus PTO orb 0.3.

B. JU conj SA

 1. parameters

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> M D Placidus EQU orb -0.19.

C. #MA conj MO

1. parameters

Observe that #MA has pseudo 0 latitude because the L(z) has been computed from the domitude. So it is a mundane # converted in zodiaco ray.

a)- L(z) MA = 242.691° SAGIT (and lat = 1.032°)
b)- Campanus domitude = 106.752°, so #MA mundane (Campanus) = 254.14°
c)- L(z) #MA = 32.85° TAURUS

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> Z D Placidus EQU orb -0.06.

D. ME conj SA and mirroring direction

We said above that ME could have been ALCHOCODEN, if it had not been his heavenly place, in exile. But JU is also in exile. However, ME shares a Ptolemaic aspect (TRI) with MO (HYLEG), which JU does not do. It therefore seems interesting to consider the directions of ME that coincide with the time of death.

D,1. SA conj #ME

1. parameters

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> Z D Placidus PTO orb -0.29.

D.2 ME conj SA, mirroring direction

1. parameters

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

D --> Z C Regio-Campa EQU orb 0.01.

conclusion : in search of the ALCHOCODEN.

If we consider that ALCHOCODEN is ME, we notice two things:

- his celestial state does not allow him to give him the maximum of years granted by Bonatti. (see Abu Al-Kayyat, The book of the judgement of nativities cura J. H. Holden (AFA, 1988)).
- ME exchange with MO TRI and with MA QUADR.

Junctinus gives this table to compute the years of life :

Junctinus, Speculum astrologiae, francisci Junctini comment., p. 354, Lugduni, 1581

and the requirements for the search for HYLEG and ALCHOCODEN are indicated on pages 352-354. In modern way, we have also a very good paper of Bernadette Brady :
www.bernadettebrady.com/Pdfs/Hyleg.pdf
 
Guido Bonatti's Liber Astronomiae, trad. Robert Zoller
Tools and Techniques of the Medieval Astrologer Book I, II, III, Robert Zoller, 2010

 For ME, we make this computation :

- we take the middle years of ME = 48 (years)
- we add the lesser years of MO for TRI = 25 and the months of middle years of MO = 5.54
- we substract the lesser years of MA for QUADR = 15 and the months of middle years of MA = 3.37

D = 48 + 5.54 - 15 - 3.37 = 60.17 years. (1587.17).