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Poem for the destruction of Lisbon, Voltaire

Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

Poem on the Lisbon Disaster

Poema sul disarto di Lisbona

Four languages ​​version (Fr, En, Gr, It)

Athens, 2012

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9:20 a.m., the day of All Saints for Catholics, an earthquake, now estimated to be of the order of 9 magnitude Richter, and the tsunami that followed killed 100,000 of Lisbon, ie half the population or 1 / 3 of the residents, then Portugal. The Lisbon was destroyed in an unprecedented historical times natural disaster that shocked Europe and was the cause of intense philosophical debates about the existence or not of divine providence in the world, the causes of human suffering and their interpretation. Through the storm positions and counter followed many questions raised and which directly challenged apologists of God presented him as the dominant medieval ecclesiastical power and abolished and the Order of Jesuits. The earthquake of Lisbon was an appalling fact, however, quickly subsided when the voices of the alleged divine punishment having lost any persuasive argument, and the catalytic intervention leaders capable as Prime Sempastiao de Mello, who is considered as the precursor of seismology and contributed significantly to the construction of buildings that can tolerate better in similar natural disasters, Portugal failed after a relatively short time to overcome the disaster to recover and attain modernized. Voltaire, the flagship this form of enlightenment, he wrote a few months after the "Poem on the Lisbon disaster", which contains many of the questions raised at that time on the occasion of the earthquake which had not ceased to trouble. .. George Primpas

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François Marie Arous (French: François-Marie Arouet, selected Voltaire) (21 Νοεμβρίου 1694 - May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire (Voltaire) was a French philosopher, writer and humorist. Considered a central figure and incarnation of the Enlightenment of the 18th century. There was also an essayist and a leading representative of deism (déisme).

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Title of the original:

Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne

Poem for the destruction of Lisbon

Author:

François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Performance in Greek:

Gianna Primpa

Responsible series:

George Primpas

Series:

This Kaino

Serial Number:

4

Editing and proofreading:

George Primpas

Place and Date of first version:

Athens, 2012

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