Having read the New Revelations, and browsed the Complete etc, any
way, the only thing I reckon he got right was the introduction, a
pity he does NOT illustrate any examples in the following pages.
Nostradamus' Prophecies are written in an artful, baffling mixture of
old French, Provencal, and Latin. They are also wilfully obscured in a
miasma of puns and wordplay, allusions and elisions, grammatical
trickery and cryptic anagrams. The prophecies are contained in
four-line verses called quatrains.
Most of the prophecies are contained in the ten volumes called The
Centuries. Nostradamus began writing these in 1554. He published the
first three Centuries in 1555. Centuries 4 through 7 were published by
1556. Except for a few special editions, the final three Centuries
were scheduled for publication posthumously. Nostradamus did not
confine his predictive muse to these volumes alone. The first three
Centuries were dedicated to his new-born son Cesar, and when they were
published, he introduced them with a Preface written for Cesar. Later,
when Nostradamus sent a special copy of the final three Centuries to
the French king, Henry II, he sent with them a long letter, The
Epistle to Henry II outlining the future history of the world seen
through the prism of his prophetic trance. Some forecasts were also
noted in what Nostradamus scholars call the Presages, a collection of
disparate quatrains scattered through the prophet's almanacs published
between 1554-1567.
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