El pasaje crucial de la «disputación» entre griegos y romanos (coplas 44-70) invita al lector a «transcend those aspects of indeterminacy that some would find perverse and exasperating in Ruiz's discourse. Juan Ruiz, I submit, foreshadows throughout his primordial "Book" visions of cosmic harmony, inherent in the very ideal of buen amor he fervently espouses and expounds upon. Demonstrably, what prevails in the long run in the reading "by the book"- that is, Juan Ruiz's "Book of Good Love- is the author's overall optimistic outlook and breathtaking universalist scope» (pp. 110-111), que en última instancia, remetiría a Boecio y su Consolación de filosofía.