Abelard and Heloise: Six Letters of their Correspondence. Juxtalinear and Numbered Latin and Literal English Translation Paperback - 2015

I am born on a farm in the countryside of Fribourg in Switzerland. I work on the land and milk cows. During my studies, while on holiday, I continue this activity until the age of 23 years. My secondary classes (college) end in the Sarner Stiftschule in German Swiss canton Obwald with the Benedictine Fathers of Muri-Gries. My medical studies lead me to the Universities of Lausanne and Paris. At 26, I marry my beloved Denise who gives me four smart children. She dies after 45 years of happiness. I now live alone in the Dominican Republic at the Atlantic seaside, continuously meditating on the sense of life and eschatological perspectives. My academic studies include Letters, medicine and Western languages. I publish medical articles in scientific reviews, an Atlas of angiographic findings in cerebral arterial diseases with my friend Bradac, and various studies upon normal and pathological cerebrospinal fluid circulation. Since the last fifteen years, I write a series of books on Abelard and Heloise's particularly interesting subject owing to its complexity. I scan the subject in various directions. Therefore, I now set out to correct the misinterpretation of what I may call a largely misunderstood text. During my medical studies, I am simultaneously frequenting the Faculties of Letters of Lausanne and Paris Sorbonne. In fact, as my main source of inspiration to become active in Literature I may name my University period. Become head of the neuroradiology Department in Lausanne's University Hospital, I give lectures as Privat-Docent. Enthusiastic about the arrival of the first X-ray scanners and magnetic resonance imaging, I open a Diagnostic Imaging Center CID in Lausanne and install the first body machines in Switzerland. Later on I am director of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging in the Central Hospital of Swiss Canton of Wallis, at Sion. I write a series of medical articles in international scientific journals and various chapters in collective medical books. Although busy in medical practice, I do not forget my early interest for literature. I soon focus on Abelard and Heloise's life. I don't take long to find out that what has been written concerning their tragedy doesn't match what is read in their own letters. Putting forward my arguments, I seek to rehabilitate the reputation of these two exemplary mediaeval figures. My first book concerns Abelard. I call him my brother (2001). I then translate their Correspondence into French.