***THE VERY MODERN curriculum of the University of Paris was imbued with the teachings of the early Christian philosopher Boethius, who lived from 480 to 524. Dante had read Boethius's work The Consolation of Philosophy in Florence. Much of the prison imagery of Inferno is inspired by this work, which Boethius wrote while awaiting execution. In Paris, Dante would have had access to Boethius's more scholarly writings.
The last thing Boethius saw at the edge of his despair, beyond hope, beyond logic, looking only at sorrow and death as he lay dying in prison, falsely accused of betraying the king, Theodoric, was numbers.***
(fragmento de "Dante In Love" de Harriet Rubin)
***To the eyes of "the last humanist," as Eco calls Boethius, the whole world is the work of a great architect, God. Architecture was frozen music, the music of the spheres. To know the order was to be overwhelmed by bliss. As Augustine wrote, "the most hidden things are the sweetest."
Boethius was, said Eco, a "sensitive intellectual in an age of profound crisis, an age occupied with the destruction of seemingly irreplaceable values. The classical world was vanishing before his eyes. It was a barbaric time. The cultivation of letters was dying out. The breakup of Europe had reached one of its most tragic moments. Boethius sought refuge by subscribing to values which could not be destroyed: the law of numbers, which would govern art and nature no matter what came to pass." Numbers alone were eternal, Boethius wrote. By meditating on numbers, one could free oneself of matter and appearances and learn directly from God.***
(fragmento de "Dante In Love" de Harriet Rubin)
LUNA
BUSCO LA SOLUCIÓN
DE ESTE PROBLEMA OSCURO
EN UN CIELO VACÍO,
DO BRILLA UN ASTRO PURO
DE ESTE PROBLEMA OSCURO
EN UN CIELO VACÍO,
DO BRILLA UN ASTRO PURO
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