Capitolo 17
to start to end, a human and acute play shot I cross with
passion, adventure, pathos and the tragedy. In a sense it is an epitome
of the more first Middle Ages and through him the bright light shines
of a was to live fervent, of exciting adventure of phenomenal
he/she forces intellectual and of the great and comprehensive liberty. As a
the only episode of passion that is not separate particularly
apart the attractive personality of Heloise; as a phase in the
development of the Christian philosophy that is of only secondary value.
United in the one, the two factors realize a dramatic and bright unity
that has made the history of Abelard and immortal Heloise.
HISTORIA CALAMITATUM
PREFACE
Often the hearts of men and women are mixed, as likewise them it is
calmed in their pains, more from example that from words. And
therefore, because I have also known some discourse consolation
it had with one who was a thereof of the witness, it is me now I minded to write of
the sufferings that have jumped out of my adversities for the,
eyes of one that, although absent, it is never of him a comforter. This
I do so that, in to compare Your pains with mine, you can discover,
what the Your are in nothing of truth, or at the most but of small
you explain, and so you come to bear more easily them.
CHAPTER ME
OF THE COUNTRY OF PIERRE ABELARD AND HIS/HER PARENTS
Knows, then, that I have come from a certain city on which was built
the way in the smaller Brittany, distant of the eight miles, as I think,
toward east from the city of Nantes, and in his/her his/her own called language
Palets. Man is the nature of that country, or, you/he/she can be, of them
who indulge there--for in their truth they are rapid in desire--that my mind
him easily bent to the study of letters. Even more, I had a
father that had won some flouring of letters before he had encircled
on the belt of the soldier. And so that long been needed later
its thereof of the love was so strong that he saw to him that every child of
his should be also taught in letters first than in the management