The Consolation of Philosophyis the best-known work ofAnicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Roman statesman and scholar who lived at the intersection of the classical and medieval periods. Identified by fifteenth-century humanist Lorenzo Valla as “the last of the Romans and the first of the scholastics,” and byGibboninThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireas “the last of the Romans whom Cato or Tully could have acknowledged for...
