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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 950 — Chapter VIII · THE FESTIVALS.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

To what extent astrology influenced even the festivals of this century is shown by the introduction of the planets (not described with sufficient clearness) at the reception of the ducal brides at Ferrara. Diario Ferrarese, in Muratori, xxiv. col. 248, ad. a. 1473; col. 282, ad. a. 1491. So, too, at Mantua, Arch. Stor. append. ii. p. 233.

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