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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Azzolini, Monica, "The politics of prognostication: Astrology, political conspiracy and murder in fifteenth-century Italy", History of Universities, 23/2 (2008), 6-34.
- Resum
- On 26 December 1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, second duke of Milan, was brutally assassinated while attending mass in the Church of Santo Stefano in Brolio. The three cultprits were three young Milanese patricians, Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Carlo Visconti, and Gerolamo Olgiati. Despite the fact that the political events that led to the murder have been recounted a number of times, there is a conspicuous part of the story surrounding Galeazzo's murder that political historians have never narrated, namely the extraordinary flourishing of astrological prognostications that preceded and followed the event. This article wishes to revisit the infamous murder of Galeazzo Maria Sforza in the light of this remarkable documentation. The purpose is twofold: on a micro-level, I wish to make a case for the importane of this 'trafficking' of astrological information in making the murder possible. On a macro-level, however, this case-study clearly exemplifies the political uses of astrology within the information economy of Renaissance Europe.
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
Societat
Història - Política
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/390878/The_Politics_of_Pro ...
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