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by LSmerillo (
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I would only like to point out that there is a much older and much more noble astrological princess, Maria Mancini. She was born in Rome on 2 Aug., 1639, and died in Pisa in 1715. The niece of Cardinal Mazzarin, she was at the French court in 1659 and was the lover of Louis XIV (There is a set of letters of correspondence between her and Louis preserved in the Colonna Archivio at the Biblioteca Nazionale Sublacense).
When Mazzarin blocked her marriage to Louis, she was given in marriage to principe Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, the Grand Commestabile of Napoli. Detesting the limitations of the Colonna court in Rome, she fled the City and her husband on 29 May, 1672.
She is most noted as being one of the first women, along with her sister Hortense, to have published her autobiography, setting out her own story and justification for her action in abandoning her marriage, and chosing an indepnedent life, in direct response to a fictious autobiography published in 1676 (see Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Patricia Francis Cholakian (eds.), 'La Vérité dans son jour, ou les véritables mémoires de M. Mancini, Connétable Colonne', Delmar NY: Scholar's Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998).
However in 1670 and 1671 she had already published two astrological 'almanacs,' of about 80 pages each, titled 'Discorso Astrosofico delle mutationi de'tempi; E d'altri accidenti mondani dell'anno...' with numerous predicitons for mundane and political events. She does not mention her flight from Principe Colonna.
Her numerous quotations from astrological works, chiefly mediaeval Arabic works translated into Latin as well as Kepler and Cardano, shew her to be extremely well read in the matter. The Princess Mancini Colonna may well have been the first woman to have published astrological works in modern times. I am currently preparing an edition and study of these two texts.
feliciter,
Lorenzo Smerillo
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