The Prophet of Bologna: The Enigmatic Life of Bartolomeo della Rocca Cocles In the vibrant, intellectually charged atmosphere of late fifteenth-century Bologna, few figures captured the intersection of scientific observation and mystical foresight as profoundly as Bartolomeo della Rocca. Known to history by his evocative moniker, Cocles, this Italian scholar was far more than a mere practitioner of the occult; he was a meticulous chronicler of the human form and a bridge between the classical wisdom of antiquity and the burgeoning empirical spirit of the Renaissance. Born in 1467, Cocles eme…