Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth 3
2 Metaphor as Knowledge: Aristotle's Medieval (Mis)Fortunes 95
3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis 116
4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) 171
5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages 223
6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana 250
7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah 286
8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts 309
9 Toward a History of Denotation 353
10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism 385
11 The Language of the Austral Land 424
12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre 440
13 On the Silence of Kant 457
14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) 488
15 The Threshold and the Infinite: Peirce and Primary Iconism 508
16 The Definitions in Croce's Aesthetic 531
17 Five Senses of the Word "Semantics," from Bréal to the Present Day 548
18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation 564
References 587
Index 613