sometimes Lull, Lulio or Lullius, Mallorcan theologian, novelist and poet, 1235?-1316?, author of Ars compendiosa inveniendi veritatem or Ars magna, Llibre de contemplacio, Arbre de Filosofia d' Amor and other works
Fishburn and Hughes: "The first major poet and prose writer in Catalan. At the age of 31 Lully repented his profligate youth and dedicated the rest of his life to religious studies and the fanatical pursuit of missionary projects, until his zeal verged on madness. An expert in Arabic, he tried to teach Christianity in Tunis and Bougie and was arrested. Finally he was stoned to death outside the walls of Bougie while campaigning against Islam. Though his writings abound in contradictions and eccentric speculations, Lully was called 'Doctor Illuminatus' in Spain and was for a while worshipped as a saint. Lully's Ars Magna Generalis (1275) is a treatise described in the frontispiece as a compendium of accessible answers to all questions on the arts and sciences. It begins by presenting three sectioned circles in which the principles governing the spiritual and physical worlds are arbitrarily set out under different letter headings. Rotating these circles on the same centre produces different letters, and Lully formulated his answers on the basis of their various combinations." (120)
Parodi: “los aparentes azares de la estadística y el Arte Combinatorio de Ramón Lull”: el teólogo, filósofo, misionero, místico y poeta mallorquín Ramón Lulio, o Llull, (1235?-1316), es autor de más de 280 obras. Bustos hace referencia a Ars magna (1274), un sistema de lengua filosófica perfecta “mediante la cual se podrá convertir a los infieles. Esta lengua pretende ser universal porque universal es la combinatoria matemática que articula su plano de la expresión, y universal es el sistema de ideas comunes a todas las gentes que Llull elabora en el plano del contenido” (Eco Ricerca 61, mi traducción C.P.). La lengua perfecta de Llull no sólo hará posible la conversión de los infieles, sino que, a lo largo de las diversas versiones del Ars, se va convirtiendo cada vez más en un instrumento apto para afrontar la enciclopedia entera del saber.