The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as the world grapples with financial meltdowns, global terrorism, and environmental disasters - as well as the Mayan prediction of the apocalypse on December 12, 2012 - his prophecies of doom have assumed heightened relevance. How has "The Prophecies" outlasted most books from the Renaissance? This edition considers its legacy in terms of the poetics of the quatrains, published here in a brilliant new translation and with introductory material and notes mapping the cultural, political, and historical forces that resonate throughout Nostradamus' epic, giving it its visionary power.
- ISBN10 185052145X
- ISBN13 9781850521457
- Publish Date 15 June 1991 (first published 16 November 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bounty Books
- Imprint Peerage Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Language English