Centuries

Nostradamus. His name has echoed across four centuries forever linked to prophecy. It is believed this medieval French physician wrote more than six thousand prophetic verses in his lifetime, with the most compelling ones published in his 1555 book, Les Propheties des Nostradamus, or The Prophecies of Nostradamus. Its 942 verses, or quatrains, speak of world wars and famine, of fires and floods, of tyrants and calamities that he foresaw in his visions-vivid, violent images brought forth by divination; prophetic visions that would surface in the solitude of his study during the dead of night. Today, more than 450 years after his death, one lingering question continues to draw both skeptic and believer to his legendary work in the face of world events: Was he right? This Bayley Street Press edition is a translated republication of Les Propheties. It includes two fragmentary centuries commonly linked to the original work and 141 Presages written by Nostradamus and published as almanacs between 1555 and 1567.