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work_7t4fowj4mfcijpmqwdy5vmp3le	Steven Vanden Broecke	Monica Azzolini. The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. xiii + 370 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-06663-2	2014	2	.pdf	application/pdf	815	44	52	The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. redistributed over other parts of the Milan archive, documents the use of astrology by the fifteenth-century Sforza princes, and formed the basis of Ferdinando a difference in the way we narrate political history: ''Italian Renaissance leaders may knowledge of the history of Renaissance astrology. knowledge of the social and technical aspects of Renaissance astrology has been inspect Renaissance astrologers' private correspondences and prognostications, as adoption of astrological consulting: nuptial and pedagogical planning, political surrounding the prince's relation to the astrologers, and the way in which this formed an integral part of Renaissance political practice. techniques deployed by Renaissance astrologers actually become fun and an The problem with these presuppositions is not that they are wrong: they are They do, however, tend to obscure those aspects of Renaissance astrology Renaissance prince and the astrologer (including Pierre Brind'Amour's overlooked	./cache/work_7t4fowj4mfcijpmqwdy5vmp3le.pdf	./txt/work_7t4fowj4mfcijpmqwdy5vmp3le.txt