Consuelo de la filosofía

Throughout the millennium separating the end of Antiquity from the Renaissance, Boethius's authority was such that it could only be compared with that of Aristotle and Augustine of Hippo. This celebrity was due, above all, to his latest work, the Consolation of Philosophy, written while awaiting his execution in the Pavia prison, which elevated him to the rank of exemplary sage. The text not only shows what philosophy can offer the individual in moral terms, but it is also an extraordinary compendium of the doctrines of the classical philosophers - Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Virgil, Horace, Cicero, Ovid, Plutarch and Juvenal- for whom wisdom consisted in leading a kind, dignified and respectable life. A work whose influence lasted, beyond philosophy, in the works of great writers such as Chaucer, Boccaccio and Dante.