FRATRIS BAPTISTAE CARMELITAE

HIERONYMI CARDANI - DE EXEMPLIS CENTUM GENITURARUM

XVII

  BAPTISTAE CARMELITANI POËTAE (1447-1516)

1)- introduction

Cardano [Centum Geniturarum, 467] was mistaken about the year of birth (1544 instead of 1447); as the vintage is good, let us hope that the time is also ... Junctinus [p. 371] makes the same mistake. The same goes for Gauricus [Tractaus, p. 63]. 

Tiraboschi givcs this date, “ from documents of the Carmélite monastery at Mantua.” In a little poem Vitae suae Epitome our author States that he was born in the reign of Pope Nicholas V— “ istius accepi lucis primordia, quintus | in solio Petri cum Nicolaus erat ”—which means not earlier than March 6, 1447. In the dedicatory epistle prefixed to his Eclogues, Sept. 1, 1498, he calls himself “ "quinquacenarius" [The eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus by Baptista, Mantuanus, 1448-1516; Mustard, Wilfred P, Baltimore, 1911, introduction]

Cardano evokes Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus (Italian: Battista Mantovano, English: Battista the Mantuan; also known as Johannes Baptista Spagnolo; 17 April 1447 – 20 March 1516) was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet. First elected vicar general of his congregation of reformed Carmelites in 1483, Mantuan spent most of the decade in Rome. There he acquired the monastery of San Crisogono for his branch of the order, pleaded for Carmelite reforms before Pope Sixtus IV, and preached in a sermon before Pope Innocent VIII against corruption within the Papal Curia. In 1489 Mantuan traveled to Loreto, a town on the Adriatic coast where a shrine with the reputed house of the Virgin Mary had been put under Carmelite governance.
In 1493 he was appointed director of studies at the reformed Carmelite monastery in Mantua. There he participated in an informal academy founded by Isabella d’ Este, Marchioness of Mantua, and overseen at times by Baldassare Castiglione and other famous humanist writers and philosophers.
In an election overseen in 1513 by Sigismondo Gonzaga, Mantuan’s old pupil and subsequently Cardinal Protector of the Carmelites, he was chosen as general of the whole order. His health bedeviled him through much of his life, however, and he died at Mantua early in 1516.

 I will therefore venture to give this map of the sky with the date of 26 April 1447 (Gregorian) for 6:45 AM.

• ASC GEMINI, ruler ME (XII) ARIES
• MC AQUARIUS, tuler SA (LEO)

- HYLEG ASC
- ALCOCODEN ME
- ANAERETE SA 

Morinus gives VE for ALMUTEN. We have 3 planets in detriment : SA, JU and MA.

2)- primary direction

a)- ME and SA for 1516  :we find the mundane direction :

We see that this direction is congruent: it corresponds to C ME opp SA (hyleg opposite Anaerete).

overall results - primary and mundane Rp			%
0	C Regio Campa	2	0
2	D Placidus	2	0,2
2	D Regio Campa		0,2	overall diff,
0	C Placidus		0	-0,4
4				0,2
	1516,13			0,2
fictitious	C MO opp. SA	Dir	%	0
2	D – AR	2	0,4	-0,2
0	AO	0	0
0	Gold Regio	0	0
0	Gold Placid	0	0
2	Symb	2	0,2
4

b)- MO opp SA 1516

We find 2 C Placidus directions and 1 Regio-Campa, none fictitious.

1	C Regio Campa	1	0,1
0	D Placidus	2	0
0	D Regio Campa		0	overall diff,
2	C Placidus		0,2	0,1
3				0
	1516,43			0
fictitious	C MO opp. SA	Dir	%	0,2
0	D – AR	0	0	0
0	AO	0	0
0	Gold Regio	0	0
0	Gold Placid	0	0
0	Symb	0	0
0

 c)- SA conj ASC

    

        
D = 67.3°