Linguistic theories in Dante and the humanists : : studies of language and intellectual history in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy / / by Angelo Mazzocco.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 38
• VerfasserIn: Mazzocco, Angelo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 388.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

One of the burning issues of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy was the question of language. The single most important figure to treat this subject in the late Middle Ages was Dante Alighieri. The Dantean argument on language with its implicit acknowledgment of a classical bilingualism and i...