Luca Gaurico [SEP] place of death
Luca Gaurico
Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (Giffoni March 12, 1475 – March 6, 1558 in Rome) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, astrological data collector and mathematician. He was born to a poor family in the Kingdom of Naples, and studied judicial astrology, a subject he defended in his "Oratio de Inventoribus et Astrologiae Laudibus" (1508). Judicial astrology concerned the fate of man ("astrologia judiciaria"; mundane astrology) as influenced by the stars. His most famous
his eyes in a golden cage,"
"Two forces one, then he shall die a cruel death."
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