 However, close alignment of astrology with medical humours and physiognomonics is well in accordance with Porta’s larger aim of naturalizing the entire cosmos. These interactions also have bearings on Della Porta’s theater, which is not very suprising indeed, as the traditon of physiognomonics was developed in the ambit of the classical stage, notably in Theoprastus Characteres, a text that describes the typical features of comical personae (Kodera 2015, Refini 2017). As many students of Porta’s theater noted, sometimes outrightly grotesque displays of pysiognomics figure prominently in his numerous comedies. (Clubb 1964, Gherardini, 1971, Kodera 2015)