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...O THE ULYSSEANS The Theorem and the Myth for traveling from one universe to another Sophia University of Rome ... ...ggiare da un universe all’altro ISBN 978-88-95806-04-4 Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009. Chapter XV translated by Alic... ...he-Wiig, 2009. All translations authorized by the Author. 3 Note from the translator: In this text, several of the author’s books are ment... ...ides reading it individually you discuss it in groups, together with other people who are enthusiastic about the ideas it proposes. Even though the... ...r own lives and of the life of the universe can give rise to a new kind of people: people who have a soul, a soul made up of the energy of love and ... .... 2) – Sophia-Analysis is a method of individual and group work that helps people become Persons, people who have their own identity, are internally... ... * This was originally a paper presented in a conference in Prato, Italy, on April 30th, 1987. 35 First of all we must ask ourse... ... * This was originally a paper presented in a conference in Prato, Italy, on April 30th, 1987. 39 I have my paper written out, but...

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...this work. Original title: Ipotesi su Ulisse Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. ... ...reat willingness to be daring. 4 Notes from the translator: - The passages from the Odyssey that the author us... ...the translator: - The passages from the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecch... ...ile Dante identifies the cardinal sins as the negative forces that destroy people during their lives after they have left the womb, Homer sees them a... ...storted. When, as so often happens, disillusionment and unhappiness arrive, people often realize that it is another type of beauty they are looking f... ...tead happens later on with Socrates. The Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples, particularly the Etruscans, were convinced that the Odyssey was ... ...ed the first school of counseling in Cosmo-Artistic Counseling in 2006, in Prato and in Bologna. I must say something more about Anna Agresti. At a t...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ... November] for this place; travelling on the northern side of the Arno, by Prato, Pistoia, Pescia. We tried to see some old frescos in a Church at Pra...

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... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...’s frock. She put this aside, rose, and began to take her husband’s dinner from the oven. “You stopped confabbing long enough tonight,” she said. “Yes... ... himself, measured and insistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it... ...son was greeted with Good- night—Good-night, Aaron—Good-night, Mr. Sisson. People carrying parcels, children, women, thronged home on the dark paths. ... ...ut quiet contest, a subdued fight, going on all the afternoon and evening: people struggling to buy things, to get things. Money was spent like water,... ...other creak and splash, and another choking off. So on till they landed in Prato station: and there they sat. A fellow passenger told them, there was ... ...ng, the water heating. Francis proposed that he and Aaron should dash into Prato and see what could be bought, whilst the tea was in preparation. So o...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ...ng near the dawn, Are of the truth presageful, thou ere long Shalt feel what Prato, (not to say the rest) Would fain might come upon thee; and that ch... ...ne, is, however, very distant from the latter two. v. 63. There is a spot.] Prato di Fame, where the dioceses of Trento, Verona, and Brescia met. v. ... ...n is alluded to in the Purgatory, Cant. IX. and XXVII. v. 9. Shall feel what Prato.] The poet prognosticates the calamities which were soon to befal h...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what t...

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...the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage ... ... its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I r... ...: And as a man, with difficult short breath, Forespent with toiling, ‘scap’d from sea to shore, Turns to the perilous wide waste, and stands At gaze; ... ...the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me w... ... Hell 29 As thou shalt tell me, why in all their laws, Against my kin this people is so fell?” “The slaughter and great havoc,” I replied, “Tha... ...t hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came... ...ng near the dawn, Are of the truth presageful, thou ere long Shalt feel what Prato, (not to say the rest) Would fain might come upon thee; and that ch... ...ne, is, however, very distant from the latter two. v. 63. There is a spot.] Prato di Fame, where the dioceses of Trento, Verona, and Brescia met. v. ... ...n is alluded to in the Purgatory, Cant. IX. and XXVII. v. 9. Shall feel what Prato.] The poet prognosticates the calamities which were soon to befal h...

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...ante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earth...

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...sed S y a blessed S y a blessed Spirit fr pirit fr pirit fr pirit fr pirit from H om H om H om H om Heav eav eav eav eaven.—D en.—D en.—D en.—D en.—Da... ...le. E cle. E cle. E cle. E cle. Escape fr scape fr scape fr scape fr scape from the fifth pit.—The sixth pit: hypocrites, in cloaks of gilded lead.—J ... ...r The poets climb fr The poets climb fr The poets climb fr The poets climb from the sixth pit.—S om the sixth pit.—S om the sixth pit.—S om the sixth ... ...rough me is the way into eternal woe; through me is the way among the lost people. Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power, the supreme Wisdom ... ...ve come to the place where I have told thee that thou shalt see the woeful people, who have lost the good of the understanding.” And when he had put h... ...r feet by loathsome worms. And when I gave myself to looking onward, I saw people on the bank of a great river; wherefore I said, “Master, now grant t... ... the morning one dreams the truth, thou shalt feel within little time what Prato, as well as oth- ers, craves for thee. 1 And if now it were, it woul...

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...ed by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which in- cluded diplom... ...to power, and Machiavelli lost his office. The Medici again ruled Florence from 1512 until 1527, when they were once more driven out. This was the per... ...rvice of the free Republic of Florence, which flourished, as stated above, from the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 until their return in 1512. After ... ...fate he drew the moral that it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses. This is a very noticeable principle in M... ...e Medici, imprisoned, and put to the question by torture. The new Medicean people, Leo X, procured his release, and he re- tired to his small property... ...ent should be elevated into a living moral force, capable of inspiring the people with a just recognition of the fundamental principles of society; to... ...uelphs, and surrendered to Castruccio. He was not content with occu- pying Prato and all the castles on the plains on both sides of the Arno, but marc...

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...pected accent. “It might be London.” She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table; at the row of white bottles of water ... ...hite bottles of water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate tha... ...f the late Queen and the late Poet Laure- ate that hung behind the English people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert ... ...e of conversa- tion that you have just accepted the living—” “Yes, I heard from mother so last week. She didn’t know that I knew you at Tunbridge Well... ..., and round by Settignano, or something of that sort.” “No!” cried a voice from the top of the table. “Mr. Beebe, you are wrong. The first fine aftern... ...“Mr. Beebe, you are wrong. The first fine afternoon your ladies must go to Prato.” “That lady looks so clever,” whispered Miss Bartlett to her cousin.... ...shouted at them. And above all rose the voice of the clever lady, crying: “Prato! They must go to Prato. That place is too sweetly squalid for words. ... ...ope that people will be nice.” “I think he is; nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect—I may sa...

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...so piteously. And even as he, who, with distressful breath, Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, T urns to the water perilous and gazes; So d... ...edingly, Which with a spotted skin was covered o’er! And never moved she from before my face, Nay, rather did impede so much my way, That many t... ...e forlorn! She brought upon me so much heaviness, With the affright that from her aspect came, That I the hope relinquished of the height. And as ... ... the fire, because they hope to come, Whene’er it may be, to the blessed people; To whom, then, if thou wishest to ascend, A soul shall be for tha... ...t; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost. Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipo... ... We to the place have come, where I have told thee Thou shalt behold the people dolorous Who have foregone the good of intellect.” 15 Dante And a... ...ar our dreams are true, Feel shalt thou in a little time from now What Prato, if none other, craves for thee. And if it now were, it were not too ... ...his own nature gave; Thereafter, when the day was spent, the valley From Pratomagno to the great yoke covered With fog, and made the heaven above ...

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...sea behind; And of that second region will I sing, In which the human spirit from sinful blot Is purg’d, and for ascent to Heaven prepares. Here,... ...the first circle, to mine eyes Unwonted joy renew’d, soon as I ‘scap’d Forth from the atmosphere of deadly gloom, That had mine eyes and bosom fill’d ... ... northern site, bereft Indeed, and widow’d, since of these depriv’d! As from this view I had desisted, straight Turning a little tow’rds the othe... ...ut softly come. And thou be firm in hope, my son belov’d.” Now was that people distant far in space A thousand paces behind ours, as much As at a... ...e. Thence the valley, soon As day was spent, he cover’d o’er with cloud From Pratomagno to the mountain range, And stretch’d the sky above, so that th... ..., if thy saddle be unpress’d? Nought doth he now but aggravate thy shame. Ah people! thou obedient still shouldst live, And in the saddle let thy Caes... ...y Caesar, why dost thou desert my side?” Come and behold what love among thy people: And if no pity touches thee for us, Come and blush for thine own ... ...en Bibbiena and Poppi, where the Archiano falls into the Arno. v. 115. From Pratomagno to the mountain range.] From Pratomagno now called Prato Vecch...