Bartolomeo della Rocca

Italian scholar
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IntroItalian scholar
PlacesItaly
wasAstrologer
Gender
Male
Birth19 March 1467, Bologna
Death9 September 1504Bologna (aged 37 years)
Star signPisces
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Biography

Bartolomeo della Rocca, also known as Cocles (March 19, 1467 – September 9, 1504) was a scholar of chiromancy, physiognomy, astrology, and geomancy who lived in Bologna, Italy during the rule of the Bentivoglio.
In the months which preceded April, 1498, he participated (with others) in the preparation of a list of predictions relating to the life expectancies of different personalities for Giovanni Bentivoglio, dictator of Bologna and father of his boss Alessandro Bentivoglio.
Alessandro Achillini was a promoter of Cocles.
Ermes Bentivoglio had Cocles assassinated because of his prediction that Ermes would die in battle.
His main work, Chiromantie ac physionomie anastasis was published in 1504 then the Compendio of Fisiognomica ("Compendium of Physiognomics"), was published after his death, in 1553 in Strasbourg.

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