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Linguistic theories in Dante and the humanists studies of language and intellectual history in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy

Dante Alighieri's argument on the question of the language stimulated the debate among fifteenth century humanists. This book provides a novel and open-ended reading of Dante's literature on language as well as a systematic reconstruction of the whole body of humanistic literature on linguistic phenomena.
Print Book, English, 1993
E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1993