Allure Quote by Umberto Eco
![“They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/080/umberto-eco-313_allure_they-the-templars-had-read-avicenna-and_1993593.jpg)
“They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?”
