CIRO DISCEPOLO'S BLOG PART V

PREFACE
This is the fifth volume of my blog posts. Last year, in Volume IV, I wrote: "This is the fourth volume collecting several years of my blog on cirodiscepolo.it. I published Volume III in November 2019, so exactly four years have passed since the last volume appeared, and today I present the fourth in the series. Why has it taken me so long, when I had so much material available? Because I could not find anyone to help me. I confess that I find it rather absurd to have to invest so many hours of work and so much energy in simple 'copying and pasting' and minor editing that anyone could do, leaving me so many days (and nights) to devote to works of greater interest (I believe). But that is how things stand, and I cannot change them.
As I have just explained, I waited four years for editorial help that had been promised and then failed to materialize, and in the end I decided to do the work myself. I could have abandoned the project and left the first three volumes as a historical record of this important chapter in my working life, but ultimately I decided to take it on personally because I think these volumes may be useful for two main reasons:
1) They provide a written-or photographic, if you prefer-chronology of my journey as an author: a kind of logbook in which, day by day and in public, I expanded my knowledge of astrology and shared it with Everyone.
2) As some people know, it has often happened-and may happen again-that writings of mine which I consider important have 'disappeared' from the web, even after being published several times. In this way I try to save them by publishing them on paper and making them available to some important public and private libraries, in Italy and abroad, for the benefit of those very few future scholars who have little sympathy for the firemen of Fahrenheit 451."
One more thing. The first volume of this series collects my daily blog posts published between December 2007 and September 2008, totaling 450 pages printed in the large 17.5 × 25 cm format. Volume II contains my blog posts from October 2008 to December 2009, totaling 508 pages in the same format. The third volume, with 474 pages, runs from the January 2010 posts to those of December 2010. The fourth volume begins in January 2011 and has to stop before the middle of May of that year, having reached more than 610 printed pages, again in this large format. I should also add that in this volume I removed all the photographs and other images except for the strictly indispensable zodiac charts.
This is evidence, I believe, that in that year especially I worked extremely hard on my blog, devoting as much as eight hours a day to it, all three hundred and sixty-five days of the year... Finally, in the present volume, the fifth, I have included the texts from May to August, again of 2011, and stopped once I had passed 580 pages...
Have I received any expressions of gratitude for this? Well, that is another matter, and I prefer to pass over the subject.
P.S. Of necessity, I have confined myself to 'copying and pasting', without undertaking any editing, but I think this material will be useful nevertheless.
P.P.S. For the same reasons, I have decided that for this kind of publication, even in the future, if I work on further volumes, I shall not also prepare a Kindle edition of the book, because that would take up precious time that I wish to spend differently.
Milan, March 13, 2024