Item #21 The Duke and the Stars. Astrology anf Politics in Renaissance Milan. Monica Azzolino.
Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan

The Duke and the Stars. Astrology anf Politics in Renaissance Milan.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. Item #21

8vo.  [16], 370 pp. Illustrated with 19 illustrations in the text.  Cloth covered boards, near fine in dust jacket.

Anthony Grafton writes of of Azzolini's research, "This book, as erudite as it is is elegant, takes the reader deep into the court life of Renaissance Milan.  Using a vast range of sources with great care and artistry, Monica Azzolini recreates the lost discipline of astrology.  The Duke and the Stars restores and illuminates a lost world, as colorful, as complex and as full of vividly portrayed individuals as a great Renaissance fresco."

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