Yıldız Tılsımları ve Cinlerin Sesi: Cecco d'Ascoli'nin Küre Şerhi

Cecco alludes to astrological images twice in his commentary on the De principiis of Alcabitius. To illustrate how images made as love charms or to gain honor work, he states that if an image for love is made in the hour of Venus when that planet is in Pisces or Taurus, as the tin is poured out it acquires, under the molding influence of that constellation, the due proportion of the elements essential to produce the desired property. Later, Cecco tells us of an image which Vergil made at Naples to drive away flies. When the second facies of Aquarius is in the ascendant, an image of a fly should be engraved on the stone in a ring. In his Commentary on the Sphere, Cecco even goes so far as to describe how to construct an astronomical image that will enable one to receive responses from demons.