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277:, 2nd French Company), in a romantic question (p. 128); his friend signor Bernard Garimbert, a gentleman of Parma (p. 131); a great lady of the court of the King of France (p. 132); the organist of the Bishop of Limoges (p. 133); the Seigneur de Clermont de Lodève (pp. 134–35); a gentleman of the King's court (pp. 135–36); and the Comte de Tonnerre (p. 142).
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Preface (also included in the printed work), Cattan himself says he has written the book at the request and prayer of "Monsieur de Tays" (who is an interested practitioner of this science) as a service to him, for his diversion, or to give to whom he please, as Cattan is his soldier and
161:, and sealed with yellow wax, is granted to Jean Corozet and Gilles Gilles, booksellers of Paris. The opening Epistle (by M. Dupréau) dedicates the work to M. Nicot, (Seigneur du Bosnay et du Chesne, Counsellor to the King (then
679:"Moy donq' aux prières et requestes de monsieur de Tays, curieux et amateur de ceste science, estant son soldat et serviteur, pour luy faire plaisir ay composé ce livre pour s'en servir, ou le donner à qui luy plaira."
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in 1547. Jean de Thais campaigned extensively in northern Italy and
Piedmont for the French King, as well as in northern France against the English, and had many Italian troops in his armies. He died in 1552 or 1553.
210:(died 1553), Seigneur de Thais (or ThaĂŻx), who in around 1521 became Master-General of the French Artillery in France. In 1525 his role was extended to include the same office for the French in Italy. In 1543
169:), and is dated from Paris, 19 September 1558. Having introduced Geomancy, M. Dupréau observes that many have attempted to practise this ancient art, but that Christofe de Cattan, a Genevan gentleman, and a
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La GĂ©omance du
Seigneur Christofe Cattan, Gentilhomme Genevois: Livre non Moins Plaisant et Récréatif, que d’Ingénieuse Invention, pour Sçavoir Toutes Choses Présentes, Passées et Advenir, avec la Roue de
756:"estoit en plusieurs lieux merveilleusement obscur, difficile, et manqué, et plus Italien que Françoys, pour estre l'autheur diceluy de nation et langue Italique, et peu exercité en la nostre Françoyse."
670:"Christofe de Cattan, gentilhomme Geneuoys, et homme d'armes de la compagnie de feu monsieur de Thais, scavant et experimenté es sciences que y appartiennent, la mise et reduicte à sa perfection."
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Italian leaves a doubt about the word "Genevoys" (meaning of Geneva, Switzerland), because at the time there was a prominent patrician family of Cattaneo in
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The author has prepared figures at the direct requests of
Seigneur de Thais himself (p. 113-14, p. 144); Seigneur de la Ferté (possibly François de la Ferté, Captain of the
234:. The examples, which Cattan presents as real "readings" performed by himself for various named persons, include reference to his master M. de Tays. They include a reading concerning
106:(in the Latin form, Gabriel Prateolus (or Praïeolus) Marcossius), 1511–1588, an anti-Protestant theologian, the notable scholarly translator (from Latin into French) of the works of
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As touching the identity of "Christopher Cattan", the title page of the original edition calls the author "Seigneur
Christofe de Cattan Gentilhomme Genevoys". The title
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is equivalent to "Lord", and the introduction of "de" into the name, and the term "Gentilhomme" indicate an aristocratic or gentry status. "Genevoys" means "of
126:, published in London in 1591. (Sparry translates Dupréau's preface to the reader, and does not add one of his own.) One Francis Sparry was a bookseller in
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301:), since Nicot has sought out many learned and distinguished people on this subject in Italy and Spain. ("Cattan" is therefore dead by 1558.)
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Geomancy bearing Cattan's name is in a form revised and augmented by an editor. The editor was
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55:, with further printings in 1567 and 1577. Most if not all of what is known about the author derives from information in the book itself.
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C. Noirot, '"The
Difficulty is to Judge Well": Jean de la Taille, Deceptive Astrologer', in J. Persels, K. Tarte and G. Hoffmann (eds),
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having gone into
Scotland to accompany the Queen, and to act as Ambassador for the King of France (p. 133); the visit of Cardinal
312:. Scholarly opinion at present is said to incline to the identification of a Genoese called Cristoforo Cattaneo as the author of the
537:, at p. 250 (Persée – open). See E. Narducci, 'Intorno al "Tractatus Sphaerae" di Bartolomeo da Parma, Astronomo del Secolo XIII',
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shop, at the signe of the Gunne, at the little north doore of Paules, 1591". - Worldcat. Full text (page views) at
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The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma: Astrology, Theology and Science in Alberrtus Magnus and his Contemporaries
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to France to broker peace between the King and the Emperor (probably 1536) (pp. 140–41); the preparations of
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Nuova Istoria della Repubblica di Genova, del suo Commercio e della sua Letteratura dalle Origini all'anno 1797
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author of the second quarter of the sixteenth century. Of Italian stock but Genevan origin, he served as a
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Coloniæ: apud Geruuinum Calenium, et hæredes Ioannis Quentel, 1569. - Worldcat.
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Bulletino di Bibliografia e di Storia delle Scienze Matematische e Fisiche
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Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature: Essays for Mary B. McKinley
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was translated into English (from the published French edition, with its
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Histoire de la Guerre Saincte, dite proprement, la Franciade Orientale
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Wim van Binsbergen, The Astrological Origin of Islamic geomancy (PDF)
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Cardani Mediolanensis Philosophi ac Medici Celeberrimi Bibliographia
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4 (Warburg Institute, 1989), p. 68b. 'British Library Add. MS 8790'.
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Les Traductions de l'Italien en Français au XVIème siècle,
688:'Le Sr.de Thais', in F. de Pavie, Baron de Fourquevauls,
316:, also considering this as his only known published work.
840:, at p. 444, sources in notes 44 and 47. (Persée – open).
557:(Nicolas Chesnau, Paris 1574). Full text (page views) at
653:(Jonathan Cape, 1995), pp. 82-86. See J. Lorimer (ed.),
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882:(Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, Berlin/Boston 2018),
51:, which was published posthumously in 1558 in Paris as
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J. Balsamo, V. Castiglione Minischetti and G. Dotoli,
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596:"London: Printed by Iohn Wolfe and are to be sold at
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The Geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman
27:(flourished 1530s-1540s, died before 1558), presumed
308:(whose people are called in Italian "Genovese"), in
545:(SUB|Göttingen/Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum).
130:(in the City of London) who had dealings with the
112:De Vitis, Sectis et Dogmatibus Omnium Haereticorum
62:, which is identified as a treatise translated by
486:1577 Edition, Full text (original page views) at
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114:, a directory of all heretics and heresies. The
651:The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado
351:Cristoforo Cattaneo was a Governor of Genoese
262:(?1538) (pp. 142–43); a reading taken at
863:Giornale Arcadico di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
743:(Google). If this refers to the marriage of
134:over the illegal import of bound books from
448:(1558). Full text (original page views) at
53:La GĂ©omance du Seigneur Christofe de Cattan
655:Sir Walter Ralegh's "Discoverie of Guiana"
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834:Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome
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