
Nostradamus
1503–1566
ProphecyMedicineRenaissance thought
French physician and astrologer whose cryptic quatrains became a cultural mirror for later ages reading meaning into ambiguity.
Story so far
- 1503personal
Born in Provence
- 1521personal
University of Avignon interrupted
- 1529controversy
Expelled from Montpellier
- 1531personal
First marriage
- 1534personal
Family dies in plague
- 1547personal
Settled in Salon-de-Provence
- 1550work
First almanac published
- 1555highlight
Les Prophéties published
- 1556highlight
Summoned by Catherine de' Medici
- 1561controversy
Brief imprisonment
- 1566death
Death in Salon
- post-1566legacy
Endless reinterpretation
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