Savonarola Against Astrology (1497)

Here's a significant but little-known work in the history of astrology: the infamous Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola's 'The Futility and Superstition of the Traditions of Astrology' which is a brief anti-astrological polemic from 1497 during the Florentine Renaissance, and inspired by Pico della Mirandola's 'Against Divinatory Astrology.' It is taken from Savonarola's larger work 'The Triumph on the Cross' which is a collection of theological and polemical writings laying out his position on the reasonableness of the Catholic faith in the face of accusations of heresy and schism by Pope Alexander VI (a.k.a. Rodrigo Borgia).
Translated by John Proctor, 1901
Read by Dan Attrell
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