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Boethuis - Europe - Monte Cessino - Boethuis

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Europe is changing positions, it has shifted and it's moving toward the north. This medieval come under pressure of the north (Viking) and the South (Israel).
Monte Cessino a monastery became a type of new center of education after the closure of the academy. This is one of the marking points of the end of Rome, Homer etc would not have existed. One man sees a potential disaster of culture: Boethuis.

One of the lasts people to go to the academy. He had his head on a coin and a mustache. No one trusted him, no one liked him, they thought he was a problem since he spoke grec and had probably links with them > they threw him to jail.

His duty was to transmit the stories of the past. He started creating a translation project regarding Greek culture to Rome. As a representative of this old culture, he looked death in the face and wondered how could this be happening?

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[...] Also in Europe, Latin is also evolving and is developing into international language. Boetheus eventually died but his existence lead to a movement of conscious effort to cover the past. At the same time we have 2 groups of people at the south and the north (Islam and the Vikings ) o Islam: its key to a lot of things that happen today in Europe (Law, medicine, mathematics It began with Mohammed and he was born around 570 and died around 632. [...]

[...] The Arabians became a threat to the Romans. They looked for people that would be capable of pushing away Arabians and found in the Vikings their ideal contestant. In 1061, Roger the one that had to fight them realized that this Arabians were interesting in terms of commerce etc and didn't follow the Pop orders. They decided to live together. Roger was after all named “Roger le Paien 1071: Further up in the East, strange things were happening near Constantinople: a little battle was taking place in Manzikort that involved the Emperor. [...]

[...] Virgil is the model of Dante. The vision of hell and its location is vague, there's just fire everywhere but not with Dante. He imagines that world this way. At the beginning everything was perfect and smooth until Satan an angel messed up. God threw Satan and he hit the earth, creating a massive whole. Hell is a spiral of sins. Once you're in hell it's for eternity. But when you're in the purgatory, you can either go to hell or heaven. [...]

[...] Women 4. Dante 5. Numbers 6. Language Dante's story begins with him lost in the darkest woods. In front of him animals representing 3 sins of the wrongs he has in his life. He's not physically lost, his life is a mess and he needs guidance, therefore he created those books. Beatrice sees that Dante has problems and she asked a divine help for him. He is sent a guide Virgil. Virgil cannot go to paradise, but the love of his life will. [...]

[...] Women are powerful elements in this culture. Vikings do not has this passive attitude: its better to live than to die, but if you die, die well with dignity. Dante Alighieri. The divine comedy is a poem divided into 3 books: the first is “Inferno” the second “Purgatory” and finally the third, “Paradise”. There are 100 cantos in those books. In Inferno there are 34 cantos, in the second 33 and in Paradise 33 also. But why? Beatrice is the woman of Dante's life. [...]