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Above: two frescoes depicting Augustine, including the earliest extant depiction of the author (left) in the Lateran palace, Rome, sixth century C. E. , and the episode of Augustine’s conversion (right) as related in the Confessions, by Fra Angelico, c. 1430 (Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg) . Public domain. The timeless Confessions of the North African Roman saint, theologian and philosopher Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is considered to be the first autobiography in western literature. A deeply per…
