VIII.47
Lac Trasmenien portera tesmoignage,
Des conjurez sarez dedans Perouse,
Un despolle contrefera le sage,
Tuant Tedesq de sterne & minuse.
Line 1 - "Le lac Trasim=E8ne"
Line 2 - "P=E9ruge"
Line 3 - "d=E9pouill=E9"
Line 4 - "un Allemand"
Verse translation
Lake Trasimeno shall a witness be
To th' plotters in Perugia shut and barred.
One robbed shall act most inadvisedly,
Killing a German, floored and cut apart.
Francesco Matarazzo's Chronicles of the City of Perugia 1492 - 1503,
recounting how, after the murder of a German student in 1487, violent
clan wars broke out in Perugia between the Baglioni and the Oddi,
rather after the 'Romeo and Juliet' model. Eventually the Oddi were
forced out, the city became a beleaguered fortress under the absolute
despotic control of the Baglioni, and 130 conspirators who had managed
to infiltrate it were strung up in the town square. In line 1
Nostradamus seems to be referring back to the fact that the nearby Lake
Trasimeno had witnessed a similar massacre in 217 BC, when the great
Carthaginian general Hannibal had famously trapped a Roman army under
Gaius Flaminius and totally annihilated it.
Merlin the Magician
"As it once was so shall it be again, world without end"
[TEOTW: 27, Shelter from the Storm, 346]
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| Title: Re: VIII.47 - The down to earth version |
11 Apr 2006 03:30:13 PM |
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Another where Nostie seems very Au fait with contempory (his) history!
LB
C8Q47. Lake Trasimene will bear witness of the conspirators locked up
inside Perugia. A fool will imitate the wise one, killing the Teutons,
destroying and cutting to pieces.
XLVII. Lac Trasmenien portera tesmoignage, Des conjurez serez dedans
Perouse, Un despolle 1 contrefera le sage, Truant Tedesque 2 de sterne
3 et minuse 4. 1 despolle = OF: despolle fool
2 tedesque = OF: tudesque teuton
3 sterne = OF: esterner to overthrow rout
4 minuse = OF: menuser to cut to pieces
CVIIIQ 47. Lake Trasimeno is west of Perugia in central Italy. Both
were in the Papal States. According to Roberts, this one is a
"reference to the victory of Hannibal. . . ."
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