A Chaucerian invitation -- Alexandria: city of reason : the great confluence -- Rome: crossroads of the world : how the Romans become the Italians -- Bingen & Chartres, gardens enclosed : the cult of the virgin and its consequences -- Aquitaine & Assisi, courts of love : the pursuit of love and its consequences -- Entrances to other worlds : the Mediterranean, the Orient, and the Atlantic -- Paris, university of heavenly things : the exaltation of reason and its consequences -- Oxford, university of earthly things : the alchemists quest and its consequences -- Padua, chapel of flesh : the artist's experiment and its consequences -- Florence, dome of light : the poet's dream and its consequences -- Ravenna, city of death : the politician's emptiness and its consequences -- Love in the ruins : a Dantesque reflection.
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