
Episode #123- Should We Trust Nostradamus? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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Nostrodomis - Part Two
Lucca guarico was a well known italian astrologer who made prescient predictions of the age. He told henry's wife, catherine de medici, that the king's reign would be marked by two duels - one at the beginning of his reign and another at the end. Two separate courtiers in the french court would later report that before guarico's death, the astrologer sent the king a letter containing a fresh horoscope. A second courtier would also remember the king joking to him that dying in combat wouldn't be such a bad thing, so long as the man who killed him was brave and valiant.
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