"Dan Pressnell" <dan_pressnell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>...
> "When the soldiers in a seditious fury
> Will cause steel to flash by night against their chief:
> The enemy Alba acts with furious hand,
> Then to vex Rome and seduce the principal ones."
>
> This prediction is about how in 1998 there will be a revolution in
France,
> and then the French army will go to Rome and start a war by comitting
sodomy
> against all the Italian officials. (He just put that stuff in there
about
> Alba to prevent the church from knowing what he was predicting.)
>
> Obviously, no such thing happened.
>
> People who believe in this **** are terribly deluded. If you just count
all
> the misses, you'll see there is nothing at all to Nosty's predictions.
>
> Dan
Dear oh dear and you paid money for this half baked sad attempt?
whoever you get your conclusions from knows even less about poetics
than he/she does about world politics.
Who is your source? post some of the funnier ones, and why do you not
reference the Quatrain by number?
But here is a Leoni on the subject, maybe you should post as most
useless commentaters series.
C6Q68. When the soldiers in a seditious fury Will cause steel to flash
by night against their chief: The enemy Alba 2 acts with furious hand,
Then to vex Rome and seduce the principal ones.
2 Alba = duke of Alba
LXVIII. Lors que soldats fureur seditieuse. Contre leur chef feront de
nuit fer luire: Ennemy d'Albe soit par main furieuse, Lors vexer,
Rome, et principaux seduire.
CVIQ 68. It seems fairly certain that "Alba" refers to the Duke of
Alba (Alva), in which case the quatrain was meant for the immediate
future. It would seem that Alba suppresses a revolt in the Spanish
army with quick ruthlessness (as be tried later in the Netherlands).
But Jaubert applies it to events of 1556. Pope Paul IV, having lightly
decided to take a firm stand against Spain, persecuted the Spanish
party in Rome and raised a motley army. The Spanish party appealed to
Alba, busy tip north against the French. He responded, with great
diplomacy as well as military sagacity. He intrigued to cause friction
in the papal forces until the soldiers began to revolt against the
incompetent papal nephews and cardinals who commanded them. Meanwhile
Alba continued to win over adherents in Rome as well as to capture
towns in its environs. Which, while very interesting, varies from
Nostradamus' apparent meaning.
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