Catastrophes in the sky. Sixteenth-century writers and ominous predictions
Common in manuscript form since the Middle Ages, with the invention of printing, predictions, iudicia and almanacs soon reached very high circulations. Much of this forecasting literature concerns catastrophic events, including floods and deluges (the one predicted for February 1524 on the occasion...
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University of Bologna
2021-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://griseldaonline.unibo.it/article/view/12729 |