All Prophecies of Nostradamus
Century 5
V.1
[source unidentified]
Before the advent of the
Celts’ ruin,
within the church two [leaders]
shall parley:
the one mounted on the charger
[shall be] stabbed in the heart with a dagger.
They shall bury the noble
without making a clamour.
V.2
[source unidentified]
Seven conspirators at the
banquet shall cause to flash
the sword against the three
outside the ship [whilst they are ashore]:
they shall place the noble
in charge of one of the two fleets,
when for mere pence he shall
be shot in the forehead.
V.3
[after the contemporary Burgundian
and French successions, in the form of the Emperor Charles V and Queen
Catherine de Médicis, with a sideways glance at the powerful pirate
Barbarossa]
The successor to the duchy
shall come,
very far beyond [plus ultra
– Charles V’s motto] the Tuscan sea.
The Gallic branch Florence
shall hold
within its lap. The nautical
frog [the Admiral] shall agree.
V.4
[after the expulsion from
Rimini of Pandolfo Malatesta, the tyrant who was known as the ‘Great Hound’,
by Pope Clement VII in 1528]
The great mastiff expelled
from the city
shall be angered by the
foreign alliance.
After having hunted the
stag in the fields
the Wolf and the Bear shall
defy each other.
V.5
[after an unidentified episode
from contemporary politics, probably in Italy]
Under the shadowy pretence
of lifting servitude
he himself shall usurp people
and city.
Worse he shall do because
of the deceit of a young whore,
[and be] run out of town
for false publicity.
V.6
[after Livy’s account in
his History of Rome (i.18) of the coronation of the semi-legendary King
Numa in around 710 BC]
The augur shall place his
hand on the King’s head:
he shall pray for the peace
of Italy.
To his left hand he shall
[then] change the sceptre.
From King he shall become
a peaceful Emperor.
V.7
[after contemporary excavations
of the ancient Gallo-Roman oppidum of Constantine, just south of Salon,
as per a recorded consultation with Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc]
Of the Triumvir shall the
bones be found
while searching for a deep,
mysterious treasure:
those from thereabouts shall
not feel easy
about excavating [the] marble
and metallic lead.
V.8
[source unidentified]
The lately living shall be
left, the dead hidden
in heaps horrible and dreadful,
by night reduced to dust
(the army blamed).
The city in flames shall
support the enemy.
V.9
[source unidentified, involving
an omen]
The mighty prison [having
been] razed to the ground,
by the captive leader his
friend [shall be] anticipated.
[A child] shall be born
of a lady with hairy forehead and face:
then by a trick the Duke
[shall be] caught by death.
V.10
[source unidentified]
A Celtic leader wounded in
the conflict,
near a vault seeing death
strike down his men,
[shall be hard-]pressed
by blood and wounds and enemies,
and rescued by four unknown
ones.
V.11
[after the contemporary world
religious situation]
The sea shall not be crossed
safely by those of the Sun [Sunday, and thus Christians]:
those of Venus [Friday,
and thus the Muslims] shall hold all [North] Africa.
Saturn [Saturday, and thus
the Jews] shall no longer occupy their realm,
and the Asiatic [Turkish]
quarter shall change [for the worse].
V.12
[source unidentified]
Beside the Lake of Geneva
she shall be led
by a foreign maiden wishing
to betray the city:
before her murder, to Augsburg
the great flight,
and those of the Rhine shall
invade it.
V.13
[after the recent military
campaigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (who was born at Gent in
East Flanders) designed to repulse the invading Ottomans, assimilated to
the predictions of the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3]
With great fury the Roman
King from Belgium
shall want to harry the
barbarian with his army:
gnashing [his teeth] with
fury, he shall chase away the African race [Muslim invaders]
from the Pannonias to the
pillars of Hercules.
V.14
[after the temporary imprisonment
in Spain in 1535 of Don Pedro de Heredia, Governor of Santa Marta in Colombia,
for alleged embezzlement of native property, followed by a second deposition
in 1543 and his final disappearance at sea off the African coast]
Saturn and Mars in Leo, captive
in Spain,
by an African chief [pirate?]
caught in a battle,
near Maltha [Martha] Heredia
taken alive:
and the [Holy] Roman sceptre
shall be struck by the Cock [France].
V.15
[presumably after the sack
of Rome by Imperial forces in May 1527, with Pope Clement VII fleeing the
Vatican, assimilated to the predictions of the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3]
Whilst at sea [in the ‘Bark
of the Fisherman’?], the great Pontiff taken prisoner:
great preparations shall
fail, the clergy in upheaval.
The second elected, absent,
squanders his wealth:
his bastard favourite shall
be done to death.
V.16
[after the Turkish attacks
on Rhodes from 1522]
[With] the ‘Sabaean tear’
[frankincense] at [even] more than its high price
fort turning human flesh
into ashes at death [i.e. embalming],
[those] on the isle of Pharos
[Paros] perturbed by the Crusaders,
while at Rhodes shall appear
a grisly sight.
V.17
[source unidentified]
By night the King passing
near a narrow path,
the one from Cyprus shall
spy on the princely one:
the King fallen, the army
flees along the Rhône.
The conspirators shall go
and put him to death.
V.18
[source unidentified]
The wretch, laid low, shall
die of grief:
his victress shall celebrate
his funeral rites.
A brand-new dispensation
drawn up by public edict,
the wall and Prince fall
on the seventh day.
V.19
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3, combined with current worries about debasement of the currency]
The great Golden Royal augmented
[adulterated] with bronze,
the truce broken, war [shall
be] opened by a young man:
the people afflicted by
a lamented chief.
With Barbarian [Arab] blood
the land shall be covered.
V.20
[after the expulsion of the
Medici from Florence in 1512 by the French under Gaston de Foix, Duke of
Nemours, shortly before the discovery of the famous Ravenna monster of
1513]
A mighty army shall pass
beyond the Alps
shortly before a greedy
monster is born:
miraculously and suddenly
he shall return,
the great Tuscan, to his
birthplace.
V.21
[probably after the death
of an unidentified Roman Emperor]
On the death of the Latin
monarch,
[among] those whom he shall
have succoured through his reign
fire shall gleam, the booty
be divided,
public death for the brave
incorruptibles.
V.22
[source unidentified]
Before at Rome the great
one [the Pope] has given up the ghost,
great terror for the foreign
army:
by squadrons an ambush near
Parma,
then the two red ones [cardinals]
shall celebrate together.
V.23
[after the brief alliance
between François I and the Emperor Charles V in 1538, marked by
a conjunction of Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in Cancer during July
1539, and discontinued at around the time of the projected Spanish naval
expedition against Algiers of 1541]
The two rivals shall be united
together
when most of them [the planets]
shall be in conjunction with Mars:
the lord from Africa quakes
in terror.
The duumvirate [shall be]
separated by the fleet [by a naval attack].
V.24
[source unidentified]
Under the power and dispensation
raised under Venus [Friday, and thus Islam],
Saturn [Saturday, and thus
Judaism] shall have dominion over Jupiter [Christianity]:
[under] the dispensation
and power raised by the Sun [Sunday, and thus Christianity],
for those of Saturn [Saturday,
and thus the Jews] it shall [they shall] suffer the worst.
V.25
[after the defeat by the
Ottoman Selim I of the Persian Safavid Shah Ismael at Çaldiran in
1514 and his subsequent attacks on Christian Rhodes, Crete and Cyprus,
as well as Mameluke Egypt, using the astrology for 1513 as an omen]
To the Arab Prince (Mars,
Sun, Venus in Leo)
the power of the Church
shall succumb by sea:
towards Persia almost a
million men.
The coiled serpent shall
invade Byzantium and Egypt.
V.26
[after Marinus Barletius’s
Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum Principis (1508-1510),
describing the military successes of the Albanians led by the former slave
George Castriot Swinamed against the invading Ottomans in 1443, as well
as their subsequent interventions in Italy]
The slavish people through
the fortunes of war
shall become raised up to
such a high degree.
They shall change their
prince: one born a provincial
shall cross the sea with
an army raised in the mountains.
V.27
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Through fire and arms not
far from the Black Sea,
he shall occupy Trebizond
in Persia:
Pharos, Mytilene shall tremble,
the Sun [Christians] joyful,
the Adriatic sea covered
with Arab blood.
V.28
[source unidentified]
Hanged by the arms, and their
legs bound,
faces pale, in their bosoms
daggers hidden,
[by] three who shall be
sworn [to act] by the throng
against the lord of Genoa
shall the sword be unleashed.
V.29
[after the contemporary advance
of the Ottomans into Balkans and Hungary, with a possible reference to
the Emperor Trajan’s incursion into Dacia of AD 101]
Freedom shall not be recovered,
[all the while] the proud,
black, villainous, wicked one is in possession.
When the question is opened
of the bridge
over the Danube, the republic
of Venice shall be angry.
V.30
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
All around the great city
troops shall be billeted
in fields and towns:
to make an assault on Paris,
Rome [shall be] incited.
Then upon the bridge [the
sea] great pillage shall be perpetrated.
V.31
[after the medieval poem
Archit(h)renius, as quoted in 1517 by Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533), assimilated
to Plato's citing of the Egyptian priest Solon in his Timaeus (22, 23)]
All through that Attic land,
the chief [fountain] of wisdom,
which is to this day the
world’s compass-rose,
[shall be] ruined by the
sea, and its great pre-eminence
[shall be] submerged and
shipwrecked by the waves.
V.32
[a warning of economic disaster
in the run-up to the expected End of the World]
Where all credit [is] [and]
all wealth in Sun [gold] and Moon [silver]
is abundant, its ruin approaches:
from the sky it [the planet
Saturn] approaches that shall change [exhaust] your fortune
to the same nature as the
seventh [alchemical] stone [lead].
V.33
[source unidentified]
Of the principal ones of
the rebellious city
who shall strive hard to
recover their freedom
the males cut up [by the]
wretched mob.
[The] screams [and] yells
at Nantes [shall be] pitiful to see.
V.34
[possibly after an unidentified
incident from the Hundred Years’ War]
From the very depths of the
English West,
where the leader of the
British isle is,
a fleet shall enter the
Gironde on behalf of Blois.
Instead of wine and salt,
explosives hidden in the casks.
V.35
[after an incident from Froissart’s
Chroniques, in which the Earl of Pembroke’s returning fleet was defeated
on 23 June 1372 by a Spanish fleet summoned by the King of France as it
approached the ‘free city’ of La Rochelle]
For the Free City of the
great salty sea
that still bears the [word]
‘rock’ [roche] at its heart
the English fleet shall
come in under [the cover of] drizzle
to seize the palm. War launched
by the lord.
V.36
[source unidentified]
The sister’s brother through
hatred and deception
shall mix laurel rose in
mineral:
when given on a cake to
a lingering old crone,
she dies. The [official]
taster shall be a simple yokel.
V.37
[source unidentified]
Three hundred shall with
one will and accord
bring to a head their rising.
Twenty months later, as
all [shall] recall,
their king betrayed, simulating
feigned hatred.
V.38
[after an unidentified historical
application of France’s Salic law]
He who shall succeed that
great monarch at death
shall lead a lawless and
impure life:
through nonchalance he shall
concede to all [around him]
that in the end the Salic
law is necessary.
V.39
[after King Henri II and
his marriage to Catherine de Médicis of Florence]
The issue of the true branch
of the fleur-de-lys
set in place as heir of
Tuscany,
his ancient blood woven
on an age-long loom,
shall cause Florence to
flourish in his coat of arms.
V.40
[after the huge French defeat
at Pavia in 1525, the capture of King François I and his imprisonment
in Madrid until March 1526]
The blood royal shall be
so involved in the mêlée,
[that] the Gauls [French]
shall be forced out of Italy:
people shall wait until
his term has expired,
and until the memory of
his voice has perished.
V.41
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Born in the shadows and nocturnal
day,
he shall be sovereign in
power and goodness:
he shall cause his bloodline
to be reborn from the ancient urn [source],
renewing the age of gold
for that of bronze.
V.42
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Mars raised to its highest
apogee
shall make the Savoyards
retreat from France:
the Lombard people shall
cause such great terror
to those of the Eagle [the
Empire] included under Libra.
V.43
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
The great ruin of the priesthood
is not far off
[in] Provence, Naples, Sicily,
Sées and Pons:
in Germany, on the Rhine
and at Cologne,
[they shall be] harried
to death by all those from Mainz.
V.44
[source unidentified]
By sea the red one [the Cardinal]
shall be captured by pirates:
the truce because of him
shall be disturbed.
Anger and greed he shall
commit through a pretended act:
the army doubled for the
great Pontiff.
V.45
[an apparent prediction for
the contemporary Holy Roman Empire]
The great Empire shall soon
be desolated
and transferred to near
the forest of the Ardennes,
the two bastards beheaded
by the elder one,
and hawk-nosed Ahenobarbus
[Henri II?] shall reign.
V.46
[after the Great Western
Church Schism of 1378]
By the red hats [cardinals]
disputes and new schisms [shall be raised]
when they shall have elected
the Sabine one:
they shall direct great
theses against him,
and Rome shall be harmed
by those from Alba.
V.47
[after the predictions by
the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3 of a great Arab invasion of Europe, assimilated
to the contemporary invasions by the Ottomans]
The Arab lord shall march
well forward,
[but] he shall be betrayed
by the Byzantines:
ancient Rhodes shall stand
in his way,
and greater harm through
the stern Hungarians.
V.48
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
After the great affliction
of the sceptre,
two enemies by them shall
be defeated:
a fleet [an army] from North
Africa shall materialise before the Hungarians.
By land and sea there shall
be horrible deeds.
V.49
[after the Avignon papacy
during the Great Western Church Schism of 1378-1417]
Not from Spain but from ancient
France
he shall be elected by the
trembling bark [the troubled Church]:
in the enemy shall trust
be placed
who shall prove such a pest
during his reign.
V.50
[after the Imperial sack
of Rome in 1527]
In the year when the brothers
of the lily [France] shall come of age,
one of them shall hold the
[Holy] Roman Empire:
the mountains shall quake,
the way to Rome opened,
[having drawn up a] pact
to march against the strong one of Armenia.
V.51
[source unidentified]
The people of Dacia, England
and Poland
and of Bohemia shall form
a new league
to pass beyond the pillars
of Hercules.
The Barcelonans and Tuscans
shall prepare a cruel plot.
V.52
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3 and its predictions of a future Grand Monarque]
A King there shall be who
shall turn everything upside down,
the exiles raised to power
in the kingdom:
the priestly caste shall
swim in blood,
and [but] they shall long
flourish under such a device [regime] .
V.53
[Nostradamus’s view of likely
religious developments in the future]
The dispensation of the Sun
[Sunday, and thus Christianity] and of Venus [Friday, and thus Islam] shall
be in dispute
concerning the spirit of
prophecy:
neither the one nor the
other shall agree.
To the Sun [Christianity]
the dispensation of the great Messiah shall adhere.
V.54
[after the invasion of Gaul
by Attila the Hun in AD 451, probably as reported by Jornandes’ (or Jordanis’)
in his De Reb. Geticis (or De Origine Actibusque Getarum)]
From the Black Sea and great[er]
Tartary
there shall be a king who
shall come to see Gaul:
he shall run Alania and
Armenia through
and [move] into Byzantium
[the Eastern Roman Empire]. He shall leave Gaul bloody.
V.55
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
In the country of Araby the
Blest
there shall be born a powerful
one of the Muhammadan religion:
he shall harry Spain, conquer
Grenada,
and more so [wage even more
war] by sea against the Ligurian people.
V.56
[after the death of Pope
Paul III in 1549 at the age of 81, to be succeeded by Julius III, then
aged 63]
On the death of the very
old Pontiff
a Roman of a good age shall
be elected
of whom it shall be said
that he weakens the [Holy] See,
so long shall he hold it
and to such fierce effect.
V.57
[after the waylaying, during
the Imperial invasion of Provence of in 1536, of Charles V’s scouts just
south of St-Rémy (Nostradamus’s birthplace), thanks to a lookout
posted high on the Mont Gaussier, where two natural holes through the rock-crest
afford the unseen observer magnificent views over the ancient city of Glanum
and the country to the north]
There shall go forth one
who, from the Mont Gaussier (and Aventin!),
shall through the hole warn
the army:
between two rocks shall
the prey be captured.
From Sextus’s mausoleum
[at St-Paul-de-Mausole] the [his] fame shall fade.
V.58
[after a known historical
clash between rival gangs-leaders on the huge Roman Pont du Gard aqueduct
near Nîmes]
On the aqueduct from Uzès
over the [river] Gard,
through forest and mountain
inaccessible,
in the middle of the bridge
he shall be marked with a fist,
that chief of Nîmes
who shall be so terrible.
V.59
[source unidentified]
Too long a stay for the English
leader at Nîmes,
on his way to Spain to aid
Ahenobarbus [Redbeard]:
many shall die through war
opened that day,
when in Artois a bearded
star [comet] shall fall.
V.60
[probably after the contemporary
Pope Paul IV (1476-1559), a former monk who, on becoming Pope in 1555 at
the age of 79, enriched his nephews and strengthened the Inquisition]
For a shaven head [priest]
it [the conclave] shall choose very badly:
no greater burden than he
shall [ever] pass the door.
He shall have statements
issued of such great fury and rage
that by fire and blood he
shall cut down the entire sex [all the sects].
V.61
[source unidentified]
The child of the lord who
is not present at his birth
shall subjugate the high
Apennine mountains:
he shall cause all those
[the countries] of Libra to tremble,
all the way from the Pyrenees
to Mont Cenis.
V.62
[source unidentified]
On the rocks blood shall
be seen to rain,
Sun in the east, Saturn
in the west:
near Orgon war, at Rome
great evil to be seen,
ships sunk to the bottom,
and the Tridental captured.
V.63
[source unidentified]
Undue complaints about the
honour of the vain enterprise;
the French astray; among
the Latins cold, hunger, waves;
not far from the Tiber the
land stained with blood;
and various plagues shall
be upon mankind.
V.64
[source unidentified]
Those assembled for a rest
[shall see] the majority
by land and sea [having
their] advice countermanded:
near Italy, Genoa, Nice
[shall act] secretly:
throughout fields and towns
the leader conspired against.
V.65
[source unidentified]
On his sudden arrival the
terror shall be great,
some of the leaders of the
affair [being] hidden:
the more the flaming lady
[Venus?] shall no longer be in sight,
the more, little by little,
the Lords shall be[come] angry.
V.66
[after the severe floods
of 1403, in whose wake various ritual objects of gold and silver were discovered
in and around the Sacred Lake at Nîmes, having been dumped there
during the earlier desecration of the temple of Diana (originally of Vesta)]
Under the ancient vestal
buildings,
not far from the ruined
aqueduct,
the gleaming metals are
of Sun [gold] and Moon [silver],
the burning lamp of Trajan
engraved in gold.
V.67
[source unidentified]
When the chief of Perugia
shall not dare of his tunic
unless covertly to strip
himself quite naked,
seven shall be captured
by lordly act,
father and son killed by
spiked collar.
V.68
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
From the Danube and the Rhine
[i.e. the far borders of Europe] shall come to drink
the great Camel [the Arab
invader], nor shall he show remorse for it:
those of the Rhône
shall quake, and yet more so of the Loire,
and [but] near the Alps
the Cock [France] shall ruin him.
V.69
[after the Emperor Charles
V’s triumphant naval raid of 1535 on the forces of Barbarossa at Tunis,
assimilated to the predictions of the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3]
No longer shall the lord
be half asleep:
worried thoughts shall be
calmed.
He shall raise a phalanx
of gold, azure and vermilion
to subjugate North Africa
and gnaw it to the bone,
V.70
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Of the regions subject to
Libra
they shall cause the mountains
to be disturbed by great war:
captive shall be every godly
sex [sect] and all Byzantium,
such that at dawn they shall
wail from land to land.
V.71
[source unidentified]
With the rage of one who
is in need of water,
with such great rage the
whole army [shall be] stirred:
seventeen boats loaded with
nobles [coins],
the messenger come tardily
along the Rhône.
V.72
[after the Edict of Coucy
of 1535, which (much to Nostradamus’s disgust) granted an amnesty to Protestants
and pardoned returning religious exiles who recanted]
For the pleasure of an indulgent
edict
poison shall be mixed into
the faith:
Venus [Friday, and thus
Islam] shall be on a course so powerful
that it shall obfuscate
all varieties of the Sun [Sunday, and thus Christianity].
V.73
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Persecuted shall be the Church
of God
and the holy churches shall
be plundered:
the mother shall strip the
child to its shirt.
The Arabs shall be united
against the Poles [Eastern Europe].
V.74
[after the predictions of
the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3 concerning a future Grand Monarque]
Of the Trojan [royal French]
bloodline shall be born a Germanic heart
that shall come to such
mighty power:
he shall drive out the foreign
Arab race,
returning the Church to
its original pre-eminence.
V.75
[after Livy’s History of
Rome, describing the coronation of the semi-legendary King Numa of Rome
in around 710 BC, assimilated to the ceremonial re-coronation of the somewhat
taciturn Emperor Charles V in Rome in 1536]
He shall mount high over
his possessions more to [gazing towards] the right.
He shall remain seated on
the square stone,
[now] facing southward to
his left,
the crooked staff in his
hand, his mouth clamped shut.
V.76
[after the marauding expedition
of the Emperor Charles V and his forces into Provence during 1536]
In open country he shall
pitch his tent,
and shall not wish to settle
in any city:
Aix, Carpentras, Vaucluse,
the hill of [St-Jacques at] Cavaillon,
throughout all these places
he shall wipe out all trace [of his passing].
V.77
[after the contemporary tendency
towards religious militancy]
All degrees of honour [higher
ranks] within the Church
shall be changed to those
of Jupiter Quirinal,
the [simple] priests to
Mars Quirinal.
Then a King of France shall
make it Vulcanal [i.e. shall burn them to a cinder].
V.78
[after the thirteen-year
alliance (1534-47) between the Emperor Charles V and Pope Paul III against
the Ottomans’ client pirate-admiral Barbarossa]
The two shall not remain
united for very long,
and in thirteen years on
the Barbarian Satrap
on both sides [of the Mediterranean?]
they shall inflict such loss
that the Bark and its cope
[the church and Pope] shall be blessed.
V.79
[after the predictions of
the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3 concerning a future Grand Monarque]
[All] sacred pomp shall lower
its wings
at the advent of the Great
Legislator.
He shall raise the humble,
harass the rebels:
earth shall not see his
like [again].
V.80
[after the predictions of
the Mirabilis Liber of 1522/3 concerning a future Grand Monarque]
Ogmios shall approach great
Byzantium:
The Barbaric [Arab] League
shall be driven out:
of the two dispensations,
the heathen one shall cede,
the Barbarian and Frankish
[being] in perpetual strife.
V.81
[after the sack of Rome by
Imperial forces after seven days of siege on 6 May 1527, linked to the
omens surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC as reported
by Suetonius]
The royal bird over the city
of the Sun [i.e. Sunday, and thus Christianity (Rome)]
seven months beforehand
shall deliver a nocturnal omen:
the Eastern wall shall fall
[amid] thunder, lightning.
[In] seven days to the hour,
the enemies [shall be] at the gates.
V.82
[source unidentified]
A truce having been concluded
outside the fortress,
he who is cast into despair
shall not leave
when those of Arbois [and]
of Langres shall against Bresse
have ambushed the enemies
in the hills near Dôle.
V.83
[presumably after an unidentified
incident during the French Wars of Religion]
Those who shall have undertaken
to subvert
an incomparable kingdom,
powerful and invincible
shall take steps through
deceit to alert three villains
while the greatest one [of
them?] is reading the Bible [thus, a Protestant] at table.
V.84
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
He shall be born of the gulf
and measureless city,
born of obscure and shady
parents,
who the revered power of
the great King
shall wish to destroy through
Rouen and Evreux.
V.85
[after the contemporary conflict
between Catholicism and Calvin’s Protestants in Geneva]
Among the Swabians and in
nearby places,
they shall be at war over
[religious] novelties:
by a swarm of marine locusts
and mosquitoes
the errors of Geneva shall
be laid quite bare.
V.86
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
Divided by two capes and
three arms [of the sea],
the great city shall be
harassed by water [by sea],
some lords among them wandering
in exile.
Byzantium [shall be] hard-pressed
by the Persian head [the blue turban].
V.87
[after the Mirabilis Liber’s
predictions of major floods and a future Grand Monarque]
[In] The year that Saturn
is out of servitude,
in the Frankish territory
[everywhere] shall be flooded with water:
of Trojan [French royal]
blood shall his marriage be,
and he shall be securely
surrounded by Spaniards.
V.88
[after an unidentified contemporary
omen]
Upon the sand after a hideous
flood
a sea-monster from other
seas [shall be] found:
near that place shall be
made a refuge
that shall hold Savona in
slavery to Turin.
V.89
[after unidentified political
schemings apparently involving the Bourbons]
Within Hungary through Bohemia,
Navarre,
and under that banner [there
shall be] fake seditions
by the land that bears the
fleur-de-lys crossed by a bar.
Against Orléans it
shall create upheavals.
V.90
[source unidentified]
In the Cyclades, in Corinth
and Larissa,
in Sparta and the whole
Peloponnese,
such great famine, plague,
inflicted by betrayers.
Nine months it shall last
throughout the entire peninsula.
V.91
[source unidentified, despite
a clear reference to Hippocrates and Galen]
At the market that they call
that of the liars [the ‘swindlers’ market’],
at the end of the Torrent
and field of Athens
they shall be surprised
by the light horse
[and] by those of Alba.
Mars in Leo, Saturn in Aquarius.
V.92
[after the Avignon papacy
of the late 14th century]
After he has held the see
for seventeen years,
five shall change within
such a period of time:
then one shall be elected
at the same time
who shall not be too conformable
to the Romans [the Roman papacy].
V.93
[possibly after William the
Lion of Scotland, who raided England in the 1170s, only to be taken prisoner
and forced to do homage to England’s King Henry II in 1174]
Beneath the realm of the
round lunar globe,
when Mercury shall be ruling,
the isle of Scotland shall
produce a luminary
who shall place the English
in discomfiture.
V.94
[after the imperial activities
of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as also of the Turkish Suleiman the
Magnificent, who besieged Vienna in 1529]
He shall transfer into great[er]
Germany
Brabant and Flanders, Ghent,
Bruges and Boulogne:
feigning a truce, the great
duke [lord?] of Armenia
shall assail Vienna and
Cologne.
V.95
[after the sea-battle between
Octavian and Mark Antony at Actium in 31 BC (reported by Suetonius at Augustus,
17), or the much more recent battle of Preveza of 1538 in the same area]
The ocean fish [Admiral]
shall summon up the shade
of the great Empire. Then
he shall stir up
the Aegean Sea with pieces
of driftwood
impeding passage of the
Tyrrhenian Sea.
V.96
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
The rose [shall reign] at
the centre of the great world,
for new projects public
blood shed:
to speak the truth, people
shall keep their mouths shut.
Then at a time when he is
most needed the awaited one shall at last come.
V.97
[source unidentified]
The one born deformed [shall
be] smothered out of horror,
in the city inhabited by
the great King:
the harsh edict on captives
[shall be] revoked.
Hail and prodigious thunder
at Condom.
V.98
[after the Mirabilis Liber
of 1522/3]
On the forty-eighth degree
of latitude,
at the end of Cancer [there
shall be] such a great drought:
fish in seas, rivers, lakes
vigorously boiled,
Béarn, Bigorre in
distress through fire from the sky [lightning].
V.99
[after the events of the
pontificate of the English Pope Adrian IV between 1154 and 1159, with the
imagery presumably based on the Latin Epigrams of Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523)]
Milan, Ferrara, Turin and
Aquileia,
Capua, Brindisi [shall be]
harassed by the Celtic nation [France],
by the Lion and by the [Imperial]
Eagle’s forces,
when the old British head
shall have [rule in] Rome.
V.100
[source unidentified]
The firebrand [shall be]
caught by his own fire:
fire from the sky [lightning]
at Carcassonne and Comminges.
[Via] Foix, Auch, Mazères,
the haughty old man escaped [shall escape]
through those of Hesse and
some Saxons from Thuringia.
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