Leigh_Bee a écrit:
> "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.
Interesting.
J.
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