Abstract
The Mysticism of the French Rome and Pierre Ameilh’s Chrsistian Numerology. Pierre Ameilh, archbishop of Naples, who was Cardinal Gui de Boulogne’s creature and in the future responsible for of the Schism, had embarked upon the writing of a notebook on Christian numerology in 1365. He carried on the writing in Embrun, where he had been relegated by Urban V. The notebook, devoted to the Bible, aims at throwing light on the numerical combinations which prophesy past - and undoubtedly future events. In his correspondance, Pierre Ameilh implies that biblical arithmetic reveal great secrets. The study of the notebook makes it possible to spot his borrowings to the Hebrew numerology technique called gematria, as well as some knowledge of the Hebraic Bible, close to the Kabbalah. From all that, it is possible to suggest the presence of a mystical sense which can be ascribed to the stay of the curia in Avignon.
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