Print Description
This manuscript document was made for the occasion of a speech held for an Alkmaar citizen audience held in 1842. It refers to the work and predictions done by the Italian Astrologist Don Antonio Magino, but also to the wisdom of Tijl Uilenspiegel. The main message is that ‘after rain there must always come sunshine’.
Don Antonio Magino = Giovanni Antonio Magini was a famous Italian Astrologist, fortune teller, mathematician and geographer. He was born in Padua in 1555 and became professor and mathematician for the city and university of Bologna from 1588 until his death in 1617. He was well respected and corresponded with Tsycho Brache and Johannes Kepler. His work reached the low countries in 1621 where it was referred to in almanacs, books and a popular yearly prognostic publications named the ‘Italiaenschen Waersegger’.
The text and pen and ink and pencil drawing are made by an anonymous author refer to the various sources of Magino’s work including animals, a zodiac, globe, hourglass but also a fool hit by an arrow.
Sheet size : c.73 x 55 cm.
Old fold lines; some tears that are strengtened with Japanese paper.
