Ramon Llull: The first proto-European Autores/as Alessandro Tessari Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Padova, Padova. Palabras clave: Ramon Llull (1232–1315/16), Lullism, Cartesian criticism Resumen Since the seven centuries from his death in 1215, Ramon Llull has been an unavoidable figure in the history of philosophy and science. His apparently ceaseless work to connect the Islamic, Jew and Christian cultures―and, of course religions―spread the knowledge across the Mediterranean region and beyond, reaching almost every country in Europe. His attempt to connect faith and logic is in the base of his wonderful Ars combinatoria and, as a result, in the base of the modern computational science. Philosophers such as Cusanus, Pico della Mirandola, Bruno, Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, were influenced by the Lullian works. And the same can be said for architects like Juan de Herrera (architect of The Escorial) and even for kings and emperors such as Felipe II. The appearance of the first volume of Ramon Llull. Vida i Obres, by Pere Villalba, in 2015, published by the Elsa Peretti Foundation and the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC), commemorated the 700th centenary of this emblematic figure of the culture both Mediterranean and universal, and allowed the access to an enormous quantity of information that had been scattered in different works, collections and libraries. [Contrib Sci 12(1):51-61 (2016)]Keywords: Ramon Llull (1232–1315/16) · Lullism · Cartesian criticism Descargas PDF (English) Número Vol. 12 Núm. 1 (2016) Sección Reviews/2016: Year Ramon Llull Licencia This work is subject, unless the contrary is indicated in the text, the photographs or in other illustrations, to an Attribution —Non-Commercial— No Derivative Works 3.0 Creative Commons License, the full text of which can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work provided that the author is credited and reuse of the material is restricted to non-commercial purposes only and that no derivative works are created from the original material.