For a recent fundamental reevaluation of Ficino and Pico in relation to each other and to astrology, see chapters five and six of my doctoral dissertation, “Astrology, natural philosophy and the history of science c. 1250–1700: Studies toward an interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem”, Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2002.
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AntonioFavaro, “Galileo astrologo secondo documenti editi e inediti”, Mente e cuore, viii (1881), 99–108. I discuss Galileo's astrological practice, Bacon's proposal for astrological reform and the Morandi case in chapter seven of my dissertation.
