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Armies march, cities fall, and fleets burn in verses that refuse to give up their meaning easily.
In The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, a French physician and almanac maker presents a world of war, plague, fire, and falling rulers. His rhyming four-line verses gather into groups called centuries. Letters to his young son and King Henry II of France sit alongside these dark, crowded poems.
Nostradamus attributes his predictions to long study, astrology, and inner vision. His language deliberately obscures its meaning, leaving readers to puzzle over strange images and broken links between ideas. Readers have long tried to connect these lines with real events. The invitation is to examine those connections, not to accept them as proof.
What you’ll discover
- Four lines of mystery Explore short, rhyming quatrains whose packed language asks you to pause and look again.
- A world under threat Encounter marching armies, captured cities, and burning fleets in the poems’ recurring images.
- Letters beside the verses Read letters addressed to the author’s young son and to King Henry II of France.
- Claims open to question Consider how readers connect elusive verses to events, while judging those claims for yourself.
- Images worth lingering over Take the quatrains one at a time and let their unsettling images settle.
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You will enjoy this book if you love riddles, old prophecy and Renaissance courts, and if you are curious about how interpretation actually works.
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- Two authors share one strange book
- A defense answers four charges of slander
- The prophet describes his own method
- The opening verses stage a ritual of prophecy
- Religious war in France fills many notes
- The Mediterranean and the Turks loom large
- Portents and wonders are read as signs
- English history enters through the commentator's own age
- The commentator admits when he is stuck
- The letter to Henry the Second sets a vast horizon
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Le vere profezie o predizioni di Michael Nostradamus
by Nostradamus · 1555
A doctor in a candlelit study dips his pen and trembles as he writes of kings, floods and fire.
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In short
Picture a man alone at night, seated on a bronze stool, a faint flame stirring in his mind, his hand trembling as he writes. That is the scene Michael Nostradamus paints in the first two quatrains of his Prophecies.
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Two authors share one strange book
The book is built in layers. At the center stand the quatrains of Nostradamus, grouped in ten centuries of one hundred verses each. Around them sits the work of Theophilus de Garencieres, a doctor who belonged to the College of Physicians in London.
Garencieres then gives an Apology for Nostradamus, a series of short chapters defending the prophet. Then he gives the prophet's letter to his son Caesar, and then the verses. Each verse appears twice, first in French and then in English. Under it comes a note. Some notes run to a single sentence. Others grow into long historical narratives with names and dates.
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- 1555
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- 13 h 50 min
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Nostradamus. The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-true-prophecies-or-prognostications-of-michael-nostradamus.
Nostradamus. (2026). The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-true-prophecies-or-prognostications-of-michael-nostradamus (Original work published 1555)
Nostradamus. The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-true-prophecies-or-prognostications-of-michael-nostradamus.
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What is The True Prophecies of Nostradamus about?
It gathers hundreds of four-line verses by Nostradamus about kings, popes, wars, plagues and omens. The book contains an English translation, a defense of the prophet, and notes linking many verses to events in France, Italy, Turkey and England.
Who was Theophilus de Garencieres?
He was a doctor of medicine in the College of Physicians in London who translated the verses and wrote the notes. He also wrote the Apology that defends Nostradamus against charges of fraud, magic and foolishness.
What is a century in Nostradamus?
A century is a group of one hundred quatrains. The book has ten of them. The first seven were dedicated to his son Caesar in March 1555, and the last three came with a later letter to Henry II.
The author
Nostradamus
1503–1566 · French astrologer and prophetic writer
Nostradamus, born Michel de Nostredame in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in 1503, was an astrologer and author. He wrote almanacs and a collection of predictions called Les Prophéties, first published in 1555. He lived in Salon-de-Provence during his later years and died there in 1566.
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