Santiago, Chile
The fifth vision(II.1 )of Hildegard’s of Bingen Liber divinorum operum presents a model of worldly geography.The present paper examines possible early medieva lreferents for this vision,such as the idea of the five climatic zones of the world,the place and form ofthe earth,and the Isidori an rotae of the year and of the mundus-annus-homo.These antecedents,transmitted through work son natura lknowledge,are deeply transformed in Hildegard’s vision.She describes first adistinct model of the world as having five parts and then correlates these parts with the five senses and the humanacts.Furthermore,the climatic zones are transformed into places ofreward and condemnation in the after life.Through the five senses Hildegardac complishesthus as hift from the outer geography towards the soulan ditsactions