I had no idea who this guy was when I looked at the monument but a quick look at Wikipedia and this guy needs a bigger statue. His manuscripts show his work to have predated by -several centuries- work on elections theory. He is credited with the FIRST work of Catalan literature. He is recognized at the author of Ars Magna, a system of combining logical systems to discover the truth (though it was conceived as an instrument to be used in interfaith dialogue to convert infidels).
Born in Majorca in 1232, his parents were members of a middle-class family in Barcelona. He traveled as far as Paris, Genoa, Rome and Tunisia. Pretty long distances for the 1200's!
Well worth reading up on this man! read more