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1232-1316 . Catalan scholar and mystic. He
began his career at the court of James I of
Aragon (1212-76) in Majorca. He produced
treatises on theology, mysticism, and
chivalry in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic. His
Ars magna was mechanical device, a kind of
prototype computer, by which all problems
could be solved by manipulating fundamental
Aristotelian categories. He also wrote the
prose romance Blanquerna, in his native
Catalan, the first novel written in a Romance
language. In later life he became a
Franciscan, and died a martyr at Bugia,
Algeria.