This sculpture represents Saint Augustine and his ambitious philosophical work in Confessions and The City of God, where he closes the door to paganism and human reason. As one of the four Fathers of the Catholic Church, he believed that human cognition was acquired through divine inspiration: “In interiore hominis habitat veritas” ("Truth dwells in the inner man"), asserting that truth is discovered internally through introspection. He shuts the books of Aristotelian philosophy, embracing and promoting those of Platonic philosophy, which advocate a subjective view of the sensory reality. Saint Augustine of Hippo, born in North Africa, lived between 354 and 430 AD. He was a philosopher, bishop, theologian, and one of the Church's great doctors and saints. Known as Doctor Gratiae (“Doctor of Grace”), he left a profound legacy in the history of Christian thought.