Sometimes on the money but more often than not muddily missing the mark, our man’s prophecies lean towards conflagration and catastrophe. Queen Elizabeth II is pictured near Salisbury, southern England, on October 15, 2020. A portrait of of Michel de Nostredame, popularly known as Nostradamus (1503-1566), is pictured inset. Following the Queen's death, claims have circulated online that Nostradamus predicted when she would pass away. Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images

In 1555 he published Les Prophesies, or The Prophecies, a collection of his major, long-term predictions. Possibly feeling vulnerable to religious persecution, he devised a method of obscuring the prophecies’ meanings by using quatrains—rhymed four-line verses—and a mixture of other languages such as Greek, Italian, Latin and Provencal, a dialect of southern France.While the ten sections are indeed labeled "Centuries," there is nothing to indicate that verse numbers correspond to respective years. In fact, some predictions that featured specific dates—such as years "1727" and "1999"—were mentioned in verses III.77 and X.72, respectively.

In 1556, while serving in this capacity, Nostradamus explained another prophecy from Centuries I, which was assumed to refer to King Henri. The prophecy told of a “young lion” who would overcome an older one on the field of battle. The young lion would pierce the eye of the older one and he would die a cruel death. Nostradamus warned the king he should avoid ceremonial jousting. The rise of Hitler, or ‘Hister’, was another of Nostradamus’s predictions. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty ImagesSome have interpreted this to mean that escalation of the Ukraine conflict to a third world war is imminent. The Daily Star’s futurological correspondent offers sensible advice: “The seven-month timeline on the conflict may initially seem like a cause for celebration, but with the terrifying nuclear arsenals of countries including America and Russia, perhaps it’s best to err on the side of caution.” Parisians would be well advised to hole up in Rouen until things calm down.

What can I say about this book The Nostradamus - The Complete Prophecies for the Future is that it can be all very fascinating, but I myself, as I don't believe in alchemy and even less in astrology, among others, I have the flea behind my ear when these prophecies are spoken. For me, they are not really prophecies, but just theories, ideas, of what can happen in the future. Nostradamus himself may have been wrong in many of his "prophecies" just as Mario himself may have been mistaken in interpreting them. As the author often says, Nostradamus' writings have many meanings and one word, translated or misinterpreted can make a big difference. I also cannot say that we do not stop thinking that everything that is in this book is impossible to happen, quite the contrary, everything that is there is possible and most things today are moving towards making these things happen. I particularly hope that I will no longer be on Earth when our Party period with the police of the idea and ministry of love is in place. That said, at least Nostradamus predicted his own death in 1566. Mind you, given that the prediction was made a day before he died, and that he was almost bedridden with arthritis, dropsy and arteriosclerosis, perhaps this was not so much a symptom of his prophetic genius as a statement of the obvious. In desperate times, soothsayers have a ready audience for their nonsense. It’s the meeting point of cynicism and gullibility Dan Jones urn:lcp:nostradamuscompl0000read:epub:027f74c7-8821-4d93-8051-b2ef77683815 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nostradamuscompl0000read Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2g81q76j Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781842931738 Oddly enough, Nostradamus enjoyed a good relationship with the Vatican. It’s believed he never faced prosecution for heresy by the Inquisition because he didn’t extend his writings to the practice of magic. His popularity grew and he became one of the most famous figures during the Renaissance. The beauty of Nostradamus is you can read whatever you wish into what he wrote. What some may consider his charlatanry is, viewed from another angle, his genius, says Everett F Blieler, author, under the pseudonym Liberte E LeVert, of Prophecies and Enigmas of Nostradamus: “Circumlocution and evasion of directness play a large part. He usually waffled in his astrological datings, since conjunctions are repeated. He invoked obscure Latin words to create possibilities of double meanings; he omitted prepositions, articles, reflexives and connectives, and favoured the infinitive as a timeless, personless form that can be read many ways.”

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There are some reports that university officials discovered his previous experience as an apothecary and found this reason to expel him from school. Evidently the school took a dim view of anyone who was involved in what was considered a “manual trade.”