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To win the lottery many and complicated cabals have been reedited with alternate results by famous astrologers, like Rutilio Benincasa born in Tursano, province of Reggio Calabria in 1555.
He became very popular especially in Sicily where all the cabalists from the first to the last know Rutilio Benincasa and almost everyone calls him Rutiliu, says the historian Giuseppe Pitre, identifying the name of the author with the name of his manuscript. In reality the book which seemed to have been for many years the bible of the players or the popular astronomical almanac of Rutilio Benincasa had nothing to do with the lottery at least not in its original version, but it is about the signs of the Zodiac the effects of the moon on the tides winds and the navigation.
The book cited by Pitre is probably not a pure manuscript, enriched with elements of geometry for divinatory use by unknown hand. More than a literary myth, that of Rutilio's, whose presumed cabalas are still being printed after the modern editions of Smorfi