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Index
Abbo of Fleury, 280n11
Abduction, 480, 483, 485, 487
Abelard, Peter, 12, 81, 126, 127, 136n19, 198–200, 205, 231, 232, 233, 361–364, 366n7, 371; authentication and, 231, 233; on denotation, 361–364; on Porphyry, 12–13; Stoic influence and, 197–200; terminology of, 549–550
Abelson, Robert P., 57
Abulafia, Abraham, 301–302, 303–306, 307, 308, 399
Academicians, 175, 176, 179, 182
Accidents, 6, 6n3, 7, 12, 18
Acerba’L (Ascoli), 30
Achilleid (Statius), 230
Achilles and the tortoise, paradox of, 526
Adelard of Bath, 246
Adler, Mortimer, 311
Adso of Montier-en-Der, 283
Advancement of Learning (Francis Bacon), 37, 172n2
Adversus Jovinianum (Saint Jerome), 186
Aelian, Claudius, 24, 180–181, 181n9, 182
Aeneid (Virgil), 138, 571
Aeschylus, 103
Aesop, 138, 139
Aesthetic (Croce), 339, 531–547
Aesthetics, 309–313, 322, 323, 338; aesthetic relativism and, 376; creative intuition and, 326; of Croce, 533; historiography and, 339; intellectual intuition and, 345–352; linguistics and, 532, 540; Romantic, 335–336; Thomistic, 341, 510. See also Art
Affordance, 581
Agent intellect, 327–331, 333
Agriculture, 31, 32
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 75, 409n15, 417–419
Aistheta symbola (perceptible symbols), 152
Alan of Lille, 111, 130, 159–160, 244, 245n14
Albertus Magnus, 97, 111–112, 166, 199n25, 238; aesthetics of, 342, 348; Platonism and, 316, 511
Alciati, Andrea 193
Alcuin, 120, 209n37
Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 27, 28
Alemanno, Yohanan, 302, 303n12, 408
Alexander of Hales, 138, 168, 348
Alexander Romance (attrib. Callisthenes), 24, 30, 135
Alexandria, library of, 24
Al-Farabi, 107, 111, 112, 114
Algazel, 401
Alighieri, Dante, 50, 106, 122, 125, 132, 135, 137, 144–150, 190, 221n49, 230n7, 251, 252, 286–308, 342, 424, 537, 540, 541, 544, 547n4
Allegories, 27, 118, 344; Apocalypse of Saint John as, 250–251; Dante on, 145–149; metaphors and symbolism in relation to, 129–140; metaphors distinguished from, 155; Thomas Aquinas on metaphor and allegory, 140–144; visualization of Scripture and, 272
Allégret, 122
Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 34–36, 72
Ambiguity, 19
Ammonius, 96, 204n29, 209, 210n38, 212, 213
Anagrams, 386–396, 398, 410, 419
Analogia entis (analogy of being), 95, 159–169
Analogy, 126, 159, 163, 167, 168; of proportion, 162; sign-image and, 322
Analytic philosophy, 18
Analytics (Aristotle), 185
Anatomy, 27, 58
Anceschi, Luciano, 544
Angelini, Cesare, 252, 265
Animals, 24, 27, 39, 57, 164; Aristotle on, 6, 16, 23, 65–66, 549; barking dog as intentional agent, 199–200; communication with other animals, 220; divine names and, 153, 156; in fables, 137, 139, 173; grammarians and animal voices, 213–214; inarticulate sounds of, 216; legendary, 47; man as rational animal, 202; in medieval bestiaries, 30, 31; medieval views of ancient sources on, 185–194; names of, 289; Pliny on, 25, 183–185; Porphyrian tree and, 7, 10–11; soul, rights, and language of, 173–185; sounds made by, 204, 209; Wilkins on species, 44–46
Annales Ecclesiastici (Baronio), 281n11
Annales Hirsaugiensis (Trithemius), 281n11
Anonymous Spaniard (Pedro Bermudo), 434, 435
Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, 89, 358, 361, 378m15
Anthropomorphization, 154, 168, 173
Antichrist, 276, 281–284
Anticlaudianus (Alan of Lille), 111
Antigonus of Carystus, 24
“Anti-porfirio, L’ ” “The Anti-Porphyry”, 564–565
Antonomasia, 82n50, 504, 532
Antonymy, 19
Apel, Karl-Otto, 486n14
Apocalipsin libri duodecim (Beatus), 252
Apocalypse (Revelation of Saint John the Divine), 250–252, 256–257; millennium prophecy in, 275–285; theological image of Jerusalem in, 273–274, 276; visualization of Scripture and, 264–265
Apocryphal writings, 225, 238, 239
Apologia (Pico della Mirandola), 409, 410, 415
Apologie pour tous les grands hommes qui ont été accusés de magie (Naudé), 385
“Apology for Raymond Sebond” (Montaigne), 189n17
Appellatio, theory of, 361, 368
Apperception, 471
Apresjan, Jurij D., 553
Arabic language, 22, 96–98, 107, 108, 234, 454
Arbor Porphyriana (Porphyrian tree), 4–18, 26, 45, 169, 170, 193n20; Croce’s critique of, 532; Great Chain of Being and, 87; Llull’s scientific trees and, 33, 406; matrix compared with, 211; ontologies and, 60; open-ended conception of knowledge and, 55; purpose of, 35; schematism and, 481; semantics and, 550
Arbor scientiae Tree of Science, 33, 404–408
Archaeology, 85
Architecture, 25, 46, 58
Archytas, 109–110
Ariadne, thread of, 52
Ariosto, Ludovico, 539
Aristophanes, 209
Aristotelianism, 18, 296, 344
Aristotle, 1, 21n14, 88, 110, 154, 461; on accidents, 13; analogia entis and, 160; on animal language, 181; Arbor Porphyriana and, 4–5; concept of tragedy, 106; definition of animals, 549; on difference, 12; on genera, 10–11; on imitation of action, 490; on infinity, 526; on language, 174; Latin Aristotle, 96–97; Llull’s Ars and, 387–388; on metaphor, 62–67, 95, 115, 116–117, 169; on mnemotechnics, 78; on poet-theologians, 320; on semiotic triangle, 357–358; Tesauro and, 41, 42; works as encyclopedia, 23
Aristoteles Latinus (Latin Aristotle), 96, 202
Arithmetic, 31, 34
Arithmeticus nomenclator (Anonymous Spaniard), 434
Arithmologia (Kircher), 386
Ars excerpendi, 83–87
Ars Magna (Llull), 41, 386–397, 399, 413–414, 422
Ars magna sciendi (Kircher), 393–394
Ars Meliduna, 367
Ars oblivionalis, 78
Ars Poetica (Horace), 315
Ars signorum (Dalgarno), 42, 427
Ars versificatoria (Matthew of Vendôme), 106
Art, 146, 315, 543; authentication and, 229, 237; iconography of Christian art, 253; as instrument of philosophy, 319; as intellectual creation, 324; intuition-expression and, 534, 535; as language, 316; modern art, 309; Mozarabic, 255; Oriental, 324; of performance, 105; poetry’s status as, 140; Scholastic theory of, 318; work of art as unicum, 227n5, 236. See also Aesthetics
Art as Experience (Dewey), 545
Art et scolastique Art and Scholasticism, 309, 311–313, 315, 317–319
Articulation, 207–214
Artificial intelligence, 4, 60
Asclepius, Hermetic, 230–231
Ascoli, Cecco d,’ 30
Assunto, Rosario, 334n23, 341
Astrology, 22, 25, 308, 386
Astronomy, 22, 23, 25, 31, 33; Llull’s trees and, 404; mnemotechnics and, 81
Attribution, 164, 166
Auctoritates (authoritative opinions), 243
Auerbach, Erich, 129n12, 132
Augustine, 1, 28–29, 111, 118, 135, 165, 342; on abstinence from meat, 186; on allegory, 134, 146, 155; authentication and, 231; authorized reading of Scripture and, 256; Bacon (Roger) and, 369; Bacon’s classification of signs and, 216, 217; Beatus and, 254; Manzoni and, 490; on millennium, 277, 280; on natural signs, 195, 217; on obscure and ambiguous signs, 133; on signs, 359–360, 364; Stoic influence and, 195–197
Augustine of Dacia, 132
Authentication: difficulties of authentication procedures, 229–235; at level of content, 232–234; at level of material support of text, 229–230; at level of textual manifestation, 230–232; with reference to known fact, 234–235
Authenticity, 237, 249
Auto-da-fé (Die Blendung, Canetti), 82n49
Autonomous invention, thesis of, 452, 453–454, 455
Averroes, 97–105, 114, 115, 395
Averroes in Rhetoricam (Hermann the German), 107–108
“Averroës’ Search” (Borges), 99
Avianus, 138
Avicenna, 107, 111, 114n21, 215n43, 305
Aznar, Camón, 255, 279
Bacon, Francis, 28, 36, 37, 38, 41, 47, 171–172, 425
Bacon, Roger, 112–115, 125, 215, 216–222, 247–248, 296n5, 359; on denotation, 369–374; epistemology and semantics of, 383; semiotic triangle and, 376
Balme, David M., 16
Baronio, Cesare, 281n11
Baroque period, 27, 35n23, 36, 192, 404
Barsalou, Lawrence, 60
Barthes, Roland, 354
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, 32, 135
Bartholomew of Bruges, 104
Basil of Caesarea, Saint, 182, 186
Baudelaire, Charles, 317, 323, 335
Bäumker, Clemens, 394
Beati, illustrated miniatures in, 252, 253, 265–268; 265–266, 266–268
Beatus of Liébana, 252–260; millennium and, 278–285; theological image of Jerusalem, 273–275; visualization of Scripture and, 260, 261, 264, 265, 269
“Beauté, propriété transcendentale chez les Néoscolastiques (1220–1270), La” (Pouillon), 340
Becher, Joachim, 430
Beck, Cave, 1, 42
Bede, Venerable, 120, 133, 232, 253, 255–258
Belot, Jean, 385
Beonio-Brocchieri Fumagalli, Maria, 21n13, 246, 353, 362
Bergson, Henri-Louis, 310, 312, 315
Berkeley, George, 458
Bermudo, Pedro (Anonymous Spaniard), 39, 434, 435
Bernard of Chartres, 123, 138, 244
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint, 132, 244
Bernardus Sylvestris, 138
Bernart de Venzac, 122
Bertini, Ferruccio, 125
Bestiaries, medieval, 2, 29–30, 136, 143, 222; Chrysippus’s dog in, 186; symbols in, 322
Bible. See Scripture (Bible)
Bierwisch, Manfred, 553
Binkley, Peter, 21n13, 31
Biolez, Jean, 310n2
Biondo, Michelangelo, 222n51
Bioy-Casares, Adolfo, 91
Black, Max, 64
Boas, George, 175
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 147
Boehner, Philothetus, 374, 375, 377
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus 5, 6, 12, 96, 104, 126, 160, 207, 296, 401; on accidents, 12; De Bruyne’s historiography and, 338, 342, 343; on denotation, 358, 359–361, 378; Llull and, 401; on music, 169; on predications, 159; reading of Aristotle’s De interpretatione, 200–206, 208, 217n45, 247, 373; translation of Porphyry, 162
Boethius of Dacia, 296
Bogges, W. E. F., 107, 115n23
Boke Named The Governor, The (Elyot), 22
Bonaventure, Saint, 168, 251, 342
Bonfantini, Massimo, 485n12, 486
Book of Kells, 343n
Bord, Janet, 52
Borges, Jorge Luis, 75, 83–84, 91, 92, 99–100, 437–439, 536
Bori, Pier Cesare, 132n15
Borrowing: evident and multiple, 453, 454; obscure, 452, 453
Bosanquet, Bernard, 339
Botany, 24, 25, 46, 58, 434
Boullier, David Renaud, 182
Boundaries, demarcation of, 516–521
Bouvard et Pécuchet (Flaubert), 255
Brahe, Tycho, 487
Bréal, Michel, 548–549, 550, 558
Breviario d’estetica (Croce), 542
Brugnoli, Giorgio, 145n29, 146
Bruno, Giordano, 55, 84–85, 403, 419–420
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de, 27, 183
Burgonovus, 385
Buridan, Jean, 113, 115, 343
Busi, Giulio, 308
Buti, Francesco da, 147
Butterworth, Charles E., 97n6, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104
Buyssens, Eric, 553
Cabbalism. See Kabbalism
Calboli Montefusco, Lucia, 62n34
Calboli, Gualtiero, 62n34
Cabrol, Fernand, 343n
Cajetanus, 160, 162
Calcidius, 286
Calimani, Riccardo, 307
Callahan, Leonard, 311
Callimachus, 24
Callisthenes, 24
Camillo, Giulio, 35, 75
Campanile, Achille, 556
Canaletto (Giovanni Canal), 537
Canetti, Elias, 82n49
Cannocchiale aristotelico “Aristotelian Telescope”, 37–42, 127, 164
Carnap, Rudolf, 354, 550
Caro, Annibal, 571
Carolingian Palatine school, 32
Carrefours (crossroads), 69
Carreras y Artau, Joaquím, 406, 418
Carreras y Artau, Tomás, 406, 418
Cartesianism, 312
Casaubon, Isaac, 230, 235, 248
Cases, Cesare, 565
Cassirer, Ernst, 468n8, 474
Catedral de Urgell, Beatus of, 252
Categories (Aristotle), 4, 5, 96, 126, 161, 169
Cato of Utica, 148
Causality, 165, 459, 464, 465
Cecco d’Ascoli, 30
Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognitions, 438
Celestial Hierarchy, The (Pseudo-Dionysius), 152–153, 156
Ceñal, Ramon, 40
Cevolini, Alberto, 83, 87, 87n53
Characteristica universalis, 46
Character pro notitia linguarum universalis (Becher), 430
Charity, principle of, 73, 272, 552, 555, 557
Charlemagne, 278
Chartres, school of, 342, 403
Chenu, M.-D., 244
Cherchi, Paolo, 21n13
Childers, Peter G., 57
Chinese ideograms and language, 425, 440
Chomsky, Noam, 297, 424
Christianity, 112, 230, 396, 425
Christie, Agatha, 91
Chrysippus, 175, 176, 177, 179, 181, 583
Churchill, Winston, 234–235
Cicero, 22, 74, 81, 83, 116, 119, 445
Clavius, Christopher, 420, 422
Clement of Alexandria, 129n12, 131
Cocteau, Jacques, 311
Cognitions, 513–514, 515, 522, 523, 524
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 336–337
Collison, R., 21n13
Columella, 185n12
Comenius, 422
Commedia (Dante), 105, 299, 307
Commentarius (Beatus), 261
Commentarius in Canticum canticorum (William of Saint-Thierry), 105
Common Writing, A (Lodwick), 42, 427
Communia Matematica (Roger Bacon), 112
“Communication and Convention” (Davidson), 555
Compagnon, Antoine, 243
Comparetti, Domenico, 138
Compendium artis demonstrativae (Llull), 400
Compendium studii theologiae (Roger Bacon), 369
Complementarity, 19, 69
Componential theory, 553
Computer science, 3, 473
Conclusiones cabalisticae (Pico della Mirandola) 411–412
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 183
Confessions (Augustine), 258
Connotation, 353, 379, 380–381, 382
Conrad of Hirsau, 137
Consilium de Encyclopedia (Leibniz), 46
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