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Ramon Llull
d. 1316
A restless medieval thinker from Mallorca, he wrote across philosophy, theology, poetry, and logic while trying to build a method for finding truth. His bold mix of faith, language, and system-building made him one of the most distinctive voices of the Middle Ages.
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About the author
Born in Palma, Mallorca, around 1232, he became known as a philosopher, theologian, poet, and missionary whose work ranged across Catalan, Latin, and Arabic. Scholars often single him out for the Ars Magna, his ambitious combinatory method for organizing ideas and arguing for religious truth.
He is also remembered as one of the major early writers in Catalan, helping give the language lasting literary prestige. Alongside philosophical and devotional works, he wrote with unusual range and energy, and his influence reached well beyond his own century.
Accounts of his death differ in detail, but standard reference sources place it in 1316. Today he is widely seen as one of the great intellectual figures of medieval Mallorca and a singular mind in the history of European thought.