Re: [tuning] Digest Number 4161--Ramon Llull

Ozan et al.: My error, I meant convert, but typed too fast. Sorry, I
didn't intend to stir up controversy or dissension, but merely to put
his life in context. His death is one of the first things one reads of
in his biography and his fanatical desire to 'prove' the Christian
doctrines
by logic is the basis of most of his works. Catholic Church called him a
Doctor Illuminatus and beatified him, but considered his proselytizing
missions so reckless as to be suicidal, which may explain in part why
he has not been canonized. Another account, however. claims he drowned
in Tunis.

My point in discussing Llull was to refer people to the microtonal music
inspired by
his writings. I don't know if he wrote anything about music himself.

Llull also opened the first university in Europe for the study of Arabic
and Chaldean language and culture.

-John

--John