Nostradamus - Prophéties de M. Nostradamus, Imprimées sur l'Edition de 1689 - 1796

Rare edition, reproduced from the previous one of 1689, of this prophetic book by Nostradamus. It contains the quatrains of the ‘Centuries’ of Nostradamus, French astrologer, writer, pharmacist and apothecary. His reputation as a prophet was particularly established after his "prediction" of the death of Henry II following an injury suffered during a tournament. A rare work. "Allegories and allusions of a mysterious spirit and his profound knowledge of the Prophecies. " "Documents inédits sur le phénomène Nostradamus" (Jacques Halbronn) . Prior to the edition reported by Brunet. In good overall condition. Contemporary full parchment binding, firmly bound and compact interiors, widespread stains; Pp. (4) 155. At the end of the 100 quatrains of the X century, the "Autres Predictions de M. Nostradamus" are bound. Chomarat, 276 ; Caillet, 8081 Frère, II - 357 A work by Michel de Nostradamus that made a deep impression on his contemporaries, as you can easily see by reading the pamphlets of his main opponents. It was only long after his death, and entirely thanks to the faithful Jean-Aimé Chavigny, that the Prophecies and the Centuries were considered important even if they consist entirely of quatrains almost incomprehensible to the common man of the sixteenth century. Nostradamus, pseudonym of Michel de Nostredame, sometimes Notre Dame in French (Provence, 1503-1566) , was a French astrologer, writer, chemist, and druggist. Together with Saint Malachy, he is considered by many to be one of the most famous and important writers of prophecies in history. Proponents of the reliability of these prophecies attribute to Nostradamus the ability to have predicted an incredible number of events in world history including the French revolution, the atomic bomb, the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. However, no one has ever shown that they can derive reliable data from Nostradamus’ quatrains for the prediction of the future. In fact, it is noted that these predictions are nothing more than examples of retroactive clairvoyance. In other words, the quatrains are written in such an ambiguous way that anyone, in retrospect, can read or interpret in them what they believe best. "Nostradamus never really predicted any future events. In fact, the only three times in which he indicated a precise date for his prophecies he was spectacularly wrong: in one he predicted the culmination of a long and savage religious persecution that never existed in 1792, in another the total destruction of the human species in 1732 and in the third the end of the world in 1999. It was most likely in 1549, after his return from Italy, that Nostradamus started to publish his famous almanacs and predictions in verse and prose. Unfortunately, none of these early pamphlets published before 1554 have survived to the present day. Nostradamus usually composed his predictions in the spring of the year before their publication. As for printing privileges, they were often granted in autumn and arrived only shortly before publication. Nostradamus argued that each of his predictions was based on his astrological reading of particular events, although it is evident that a large part of the work is copied from earlier Latin authors such as Livy, Plutarch, and other classical historians, and many are taken directly from the “Livre de L’Estat et Mutation des Temps” by Richard Roussat (1549-1550) . The Mirabilis Liber from 1522, which contained a wide range of prophecies by authors such as Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others, was also a well-used source. His remarkable initial success was based on the fact that he was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French. Further material was collected from “De onestà disciplina” by Petrus Crinitus from 1504, which included excerpts from Michael Psellos’s De daemonibus, and from De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th-century Neoplatonist. Full title: M. Nostradamus - Prophéties de M. Nostradamus Imprimées sur l'Edition de 1689 A Bordeaux Chez Moreau, 1796.