From the Tree to the Labyrinth (111 page)

De Antechristo
(Hippolytus), 282

De artibus liberalibus
(Grosseteste), 111

De auditu kabbalistico
(Llull), 414, 415

De Bestiis
(attrib. Hugh of Fouilloy), 186, 192

Debenedetti Stow, Sandra 308

De Bonald, Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, Vicomte de, 441

De brutorum loqui
(Fabrici d’Acquapendente), 221n50

De Bruyne, Edgar, 139, 238, 311, 315; historiographical lesson of, 338–345; intellectual intuition and, 345–352

Decadent movement, 312, 339

De causis
(attrib. Aristotle), 240

De Chirico, Giorgio, 236

De civitate Dei
(Augustine), 231, 277, 280

De claustro animae
(Hugh of Fouilloy), 272

De coelo
(Aristotle), 21n14, 96

De consolatione
(Boethius), 104

Deconstructionists, 516, 570, 571

De corpore
[
Computatio sive logica
] (Hobbes), 380–382

De dialectica
(Augustine), 195

De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum
(Bacon), 171–172

De disciplinis
(Vives), 23

De divinis nominibus
(Pseudo-Dionysius), 238

De divisione
(Boethius), 12

De divisione naturae
(Eriugena), 403

De divisione scientiae
(John of Dacia), 111

De doctrina christiana
(Augustine), 28–29, 195–197, 218n46, 233, 490

Dee, John, 385

Deely, John, 172n, 321n12, 348n34

De ente et essentia
(Thomas Aquinas), 16–17

De fide catholica
(Alan de Lille), 244

De generatione et corruptione
(Aristotle), 96

De Gérando, Joseph-Marie, 436

De Ghellinck, J., 243n12

Degrés du savoir, Les
[
The Degrees of Knowledge
] (Maritain), 317

De imagine mundi
(Honorius of Autun), 135

De interpretatione
(Aristotle), 96, 173, 200–206, 208, 357, 373; on
symbola
and
semeia
, 217; Thomist reading of, 125, 207, 364

“De la connaissance poétique” (Maritain), 319

De la grammatologie
[
Of Grammatology
] (Derrida), 554–555

De lampade combinatoria Lulliana
(Bruno), 420

De Leo, Pietro, 228

De l’esprit des choses
(Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de), 441

Deleuze, Gilles, 475

Della Volpe, Galvano 545

Del Rio, Martino, 385

De Lubac, Henri, 341

De magistro
(Augustine), 195

Demaria, Cristina, 86n51, 89n54

De Mauro, Tullio, 457–458

De memoria
(Aristotle), 182

Demetrius Phalereus, 119n4, 129n12

De mirabilibus auscultationibus
, 24, 26–27

De modis significandi
(Boethius of Dacia), 296

De motu animalum
(Aristotle), 97

De Munnynk, Maurice, 313n5

De natura animalium
[
On the Nature of Animals
] (Aelian), 24, 180–181

De naturis rerum
(Neckham), 135

Denis the Carthusian, 343

Dennett, Daniel, 512

Denotation, 353–355, 383–384; Abelard and, 361–364; Anselm of Canterbury and, 361; Aristotle and medieval thinkers on, 357–361; Bacon (Roger) and, 369–373; Duns Scotus and the Modistae on, 373–374; Ockham and, 374–383; Peirce and, 355–357;
suppositio
and, 366–369; Thomas Aquinas and, 364–366

De occulta philosophia
(Agrippa), 419

De oratore
(Cicero), 74

De ornamentis verborum
(Marbode of Rennes), 124

De ortu et tempore Antichristi
(Adso of Montier-en-Der), 283

De proprietatibus rerum
(Bartholomaeus Anglicus), 135

De pulchro et bono
(Albertus Magnus, attrib. Thomas Aquinas), 238n10, 316, 511

De regimine principium
(Giles of Rome), 307

De rerum natura
(Lucretius), 23

De rerum naturis
(Rabanus Maurus), 31–32, 135

De Rijk, Lambert, 366–368

Derisi, Octavio Nicolàs, 311n2

Derrida, Jacques, 554–555, 570

Descartes, René, 182, 245, 345, 435, 436

De schematibus et tropis
(Bede), 120, 133

De scientiis
(al-Farabi), 111, 112

De signis
(Roger Bacon), 216, 219, 369, 370–372

De situ orbis
(Mela), 24

De sollertia animalium
[
On the Intelligence of Animals
] (Plutarch), 178

Des signes
(De Gérando, Joseph-Marie), 436–437

De Trinitate
(Augustine), 400–401

Deuterocanonical writings, 225

De vanitate scientarum
(Agrippa), 75

De vetula
(attrib. Ovid), 239

De vulgari eloquentia
[
DVE
] (Dante), 286–298, 307, 424

Dewey, John, 487, 545

De Wulf, Maurice, 352

Dialectica
(Abelard), 198, 362, 363

Dialecticae institutiones
(Ramée), 34

Dialectica Monacensis
, 127

Dialectics, 31

Dialectique
(Ramée), 34

Dialogus super auctores
(Conrad of Hirsau), 137

Dictionaries, 3–4, 42, 555;
Arbor Porphyriana
as first idea of dictionary, 4–18; in modern semantics, 18–21

Dictionary of the History of Ideas
, 175

Dictionnaire de l’Archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie
(Leclerc), 343n

Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences du langage
(Greimas and Courtés), 551, 553

Didascalia in Rhetoricam Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabi
, 107

Didascalicon
(Hugh of Saint Victor), 137

Diderot, Denis, 28

Difference, 6, 7–9,
9
, 13, 19

Diogenes Laertius, 24

Dionysius the Areopagite, 233

Discours de la connoissance des bestes
(Pardies), 182

“Discours sur la nature des animaux” (Buffon), 183

Dissertatio de arte combinatoria
(Leibniz), 40n26, 46, 400, 422

Divination manuals, 1–2

Divine Comedy
(Dante), 147

Divine names, theory of, 150–151

Divine Names, The
(Pseudo-Dionysius), 152, 157–158, 400, 404

“Dr. Brodie’s Report” (Borges), 438

Documentum de arte dictandi et versificandi
(Geoffrey of Vinsauf), 124–125

Donatist heresy, 277

Donatus, 116, 117–120, 138

Dorando, Guglielmo, 1–2

Dorfles, Gillo, 544

Doubles, 225–226

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 313n5

Dragonetti, Roger, 292

Dreams, 27, 177, 261, 566, 579, 580

Dronke, Peter, 125, 136n19

Duby, Georges, 568

Ducrot, Oswald, 557

Dumas, Alexandre, 546

Dummett, Michael, 354

Duns Scotus, John, 240, 331, 338, 342, 352; De Bruyne’s historiography and, 343; on denotation, 373–374

Durando, Guglielmo, 2

“Du rôle de l’intellect dans l’activité esthétique” (De Bruyne), 346

Dynamic Object, 565, 567

Dyroff, Adolf, 311

Eckhart, Johannes (Meister), 335

Eclogue
(Virgil), 171

Editio super Porphyrium
(Abelard), 12–13

Egidius Romanus (Giles of Rome), 104, 204n29

Ekphrasis, 263, 268

Eleazar of Worms, 399

Elementatio theologica
(Proclus), 234

Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo, 278

Elyot, Sir Thomas, 22

Empedocles, 181

Empiricism, British, 459, 460, 464, 468

Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta
(Alsted), 34

Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum
(Scalichius de Lika), 23

Encyclopedias, 3–4, 9, 18, 21–23, 28, 70–94; allegorism and, 136, 143; for children, 32n21; Chinese, 438; formats of, 70–94; Individual Encyclopedia, 72; Kabbalism and, 417; medieval, 28–33, 87; new encyclopedic models, 55–60; open-ended, 47, 55; Pliny and model of ancient encyclopedia, 23–28, 87, 183; polydimensional, 47, 437; Renaissance and Baroque, 33–37; semantics and, 550, 551–554, 565, 566; Specialized Encyclopedia, 58, 72, 85, 88, 89.
See also
Maximal Encyclopedia; Median Encyclopedia

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics
(Sebeok, ed.), 552

Encyclopédie
(Diderot and D’Alembert), 28, 47–49, 437

English language, 232

Enigma, 118, 119n2

Enthymemes, 63–64, 128n11

Epicurean hypothesis, 424, 440, 441

Epicurus, 175

Epigraphs, 229

Epistemology, 320, 580; correspondentist, 560; Thomistic, 314, 330, 347, 352

Epistolae
(Virgil of Toulouse), 342n32

Epistola XIII
(Dante), 144–146, 149, 307

Epitomae
(Virgil of Bigorre), 122

Epitomae
(Virgil of Toulouse), 342n32

Equivalence, relationship of, 195

Equivocity, 161, 162

Eriugena, John Scotus, 136, 230, 344, 403–404

Escorial monastery,
Beatus
of, 252

Esposito, Elena, 71n38, 88

Esquisse d’une philosophie de l’art
(De Bruyne), 346

Essai de sémantique
(Bréal), 548

Essai sur l’indifférence en matière de religion
(Lamennais), 441

Essay towards a Real Character
(Wilkins), 42–46, 427

Estats et les empires de la lune, Les
(Cyrano de Bergerac), 427

Estats et les empires du soleil, Les
(Cyrano de Bergerac), 427

Esthétique du Moyen Age, L’
(De Bruyne), 344

Ethics, 34, 47, 111

Études d’esthétique médiévale
(De Bruyne), 338, 340, 341, 342–345, 348

Etymologies, 27, 232, 426, 447–448, 454

Etymologies
(Isidore of Seville), 30, 111, 119, 135, 300–301

Euclid, 401

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
(Curtius), 339n25

Eustathius, 445

Evans, R. J. W., 309n1, 385

Explanatio Apocalypsis
(Bede), 256

Expositio super Poetriam
(Bartholomew of Bruges), 104

Ezekiel (biblical prophet), 262, 263–265, 270–272

Fables, 27, 137, 138, 139

Fabbrichesi Leo, Rossella, 511

Fabrici d’Acquapendente, Girolamo, 221n50

Facsimiles, 227

Facundo,
Beatus
of, 252

False identification, 227, 228, 229, 235–240

Faral, Edmond, 106, 123, 123n9, 124, 125, 125n10, 342n31

Al-Farabi, Muhammad, 107, 111, 112, 114

Fathers of the Church, 93, 132, 243, 258–259, 272

Feature semantics, 18

Felix, bishop of Urgel, 278

Ferdinand and Sancha of Madrid,
Beatus
of, 265–266,
266

Fichant, Michel, 420

Ficino, Marsilio, 186, 235

Fillmore, Charles J., 56

Finnegans Wake
(Joyce), 67, 70, 439, 569

First Cause, knowledge of, 159

Flaubert, Gustave, 255

Flavius Mithridates, 408, 414

Flores Rhetorici
(Master of Tours), 127

Florilegia
, 243

Flowcharts, 53, 473, 474, 475, 528

Focillon, Henri, 280n11, 338

Fodor, Jerrold, 18n12

Foigny, Gabriel de, 427, 430, 432, 433–435, 437

Forest (
sylva
), metaphor of, 36

Forgeries, in Middle Ages, 223–225, 248–249; appropriation from unjust possessors, 246–248; categories of false identification, 235–240; difficulties of authentication procedures, 228–235; historical truth and, 241–244; influence of tradition and, 244–246; meaning of knowledge and, 240–241; semiotics of, 225–228

Forgetfulness, 82, 83–84, 85, 89–93

Formaggio, Dino, 545

Foucault, Michel, 27–28

Fowler, Robert, 21n13

Francesca da Rimini, 164

Francis of Assisi, Saint, 189

Fredborg, K. M., 214n42, 216n44, 369

Frege, Gottlob, 354

French language, 424

French, Peter J., 385

From the Logical Point of View
(Quine), 558

Frontières de la poésie, Les
(Maritain), 317–319

Frugoni, Arsenio, 146

Fumagalli, Armando, 511, 513

Futurists, 582

Galen, 303n12

Galileo Galilei, 38, 62, 259, 489, 552

Galla, Giorgio, 97n4

Gargani, Aldo G., 379, 566

Gargantua and Pantagruel
(Rabelais), 22–23

Garin, Eugenio, 409, 414, 545

Garland the Compotist, 206

Garroni, Emilio, 457

Garzoni, Tommaso 415

Gelasius I, Pope, 86

Gellius, Aulus, 24

Gematria, 398

Genette, Gérard, 440

Genot-Bismuth, Jacqueline, 306–307

Gensini, Stefano, 47

Gentile, Giovanni, 545

Genus/genera, 6, 42, 81, 103; difference and, 8, 11–12; existence of, 5;
genus generalissimum
, 7; language and, 446; limits of nature and, 582; metaphor and, 116–117; Porphyrian tree and, 406; as predicate of own species, 7; schematism and, 480

Geodetics, 46

Geoffrey of Vinsauf, 123–126, 169

Geography, 25, 34

Geomancy, 308

Geometry, 31, 34, 386, 404, 472, 473

Gérando, Joseph-Marie de, 436–437

Gerard of Cremona, 96n3

Gerbert d’Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II), 230

Geschiedenis van de aesthetica
(De Bruyne), 343

Gesualdo, Filippo, 75–77, 92, 93