Libellum apologeticum (Vincent of Beauvais), 86
Libellus alter de consecratione ecclesiae Sancti Dionisii (Suger), 274n9
Libellus artificiosae memoriae (Spangerbergius), 75
Liber apologeticus (Abbo of Fleury), 280n11
Liber Chaos (Llull), 403
Liber de praedicabilibus (Albertus Magnus), 111
Liber de rebus in administratione sua gestis (Suger), 274n9
Liber de spiritu et anima, 234
Liber Primis Posteriorum Analyticorum (Albertus Magnus), 111
Libraries, 24, 74, 338, 421, 437, 492–493
Libri, Guglielmo, 236–237
Libri Morales, 96–97
Libro della natura degli animali (anonymous), 192
Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Philostratus), 181
Limits of Interpretation, The (Eco), 508, 567, 569, 570
Linguarum methodus novissima (Comenius), 422
Lingueglia, Paolo, 311n2
Linguistics, 3, 18, 440, 457, 531
Linnaeus, Carolus, 61, 462
Lionello di Ser Daniele, 307
Literarästhetik des europäischen Mittelalters (Glunz), 340
Literary genres, 105, 268, 426, 539, 540
Lives of the Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius), 24
Llinares, Armand, 405, 406
Llull, Raimon, 33, 34, 41, 385–386, 425; Great Chain of Being and, 400–408; Kabbalism and Llullism compared, 397–399; Leibniz and, 46; Llullism after Pico, 414–423; mathematical combinations system, 386–397; Pico della Mirandola and, 413; semantic universals and, 431
Locke, John, 378, 425, 458, 459, 459n2, 460, 461, 465, 469
Lodwick, Francis, 42, 425, 427, 435
Logic, 34, 111, 113, 170
Logic (Kant), 465, 466
Logica (Croce), 538
Logica Algazelis (Llull), 408
Logica nova (Llull), 406
Logica Vetus (Aristotle), 96
Logic of Quantity, The (Peirce), 517
Lois intellectuelles du langage, Les (Bréal), 548
Lo Piparo, Franco, 161n33, 201, 202n28, 208n35, 213n41, 357n2
Lorusso, Anna Maria, 62n34, 95n, 117n
Lotman, Jurij, 73n39, 85, 89n54
Lovejoy, Arthur O., 6n2, 136, 401
Louis the Pious, 230
Lucan, 105, 147
Lucretius, 23
Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kuklopaideia (Stergk), 22
Luisetti, Federico, 35
Lusignan, Serge, 86
Lyons, John, 355, 359, 553, 554
Lyttkens, Hampus, 162n34, 168
Macrobius, 138, 402
Magic, 25, 27, 308, 385
Maggi, Michele, 531n1
Magnino. See Schlosser–Magnino
Magritte, René, 82
Mahoney, Edward P., 331n20, 383
Maierù, Alfonso, 296n5, 359, 378n15, 379n17
Maimonides, Moses, 304
Mainardi, Pietro, 414–415
Maistre, Joseph de, 440–456
Mâle, Emile, 253n3
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 534
Mameli, Matteo, 525
Man in the Moone (Godwin), 427
Mannerism, 315
Manzoni, Alessandro, 488–507, 534, 546
Marchese, Vincenzo, 310n2
Marconi, Diego, 55n33, 463n4, 552–553
Margarita philosophica (Reisch), 34, 193
Marigo, Aristide, 292
Maritain, Jacques, 245, 309–352; on creative intuition vs. agent intellect, 323–338; De Bruyne’s critique of, 345–346; poetry and, 317–323; tendentious reading of Thomas, 313–317
Marmo, Constantino, 95n, 102n12, 107, 109, 112, 115, 165n35, 171n, 298n7, 353n, 374, 375n13, 377, 378
Marr, David, 475
Marrone, Caterina, 40
Marrou, Henri Irenée, 231, 232
Martinetti, Piero, 498n8
Masonry, Scottish, 441, 443, 445–446
Master of Tours, 127
Mathematics, 25, 39, 425, 443, 461; congruence, 226; Kabbalah and, 302; language and, 436; lexical terms and, 19; Llullism and, 386, 406, 420, 422; matrix, 283; pure, 460; schematism and, 476; topology and, 58; universal, 46
Mathieu, Vittorio, 485
Matoré, Georges, 69
Matrix/matrices, 209–211
Matthew of Vendôme, 106, 123n9, 124
Maupassant, Guy de, 546
Maximal Encyclopedia, 70, 71, 74, 88–89; advancement of learning and, 94; historiography and, 93; as regulatory idea, 49–52
Mayoux, Jean-Jacques, 336
Mazzantini, Carlo, 311n2
McCawley, James D., 562
Meaning, 5, 28, 378, 379, 477; meaning of, 554–557; synonymy and, 557–559
Median Encyclopedia, 72, 73–74, 85–86, 87; historical facts and, 85, 88; texts eliminated from, 93
Medici, Cosimo de’, court of, 235
Medicine, 25, 27, 31, 47, 163, 404
Meier, Christel, 31
Memory, 22, 33, 46, 75, 84, 85; animals and, 174, 175, 179; cultural, 89n54; Llull’s trees and, 404; Maximal Encyclopedia and, 74; mechanical memorization, 92; memory palace, 79; perception and, 467; schematism and, 474; semiosis and, 493
Menendez y Pelayo, Marcelino, 100n9, 342n31
Mengaldo, Pier Vincenzo, 288n3, 289, 290, 294
Mersenne, Marin, 421–422, 425, 435
Merton, Robert, 244n13, 245
Metalanguage, 51, 561
Metalogicon (John of Salisbury), 121, 244n13, 245n14
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 147
Metaphorology, medieval, 115
Metaphors, 41, 62–67, 95, 99, 119–126, 432, 585; allegories distinguished from, 155; in Apocalypse of Saint John, 250–251; as cognitive process, 153; common sense and, 539–540; definitions, 118–120, 539; examples in philosophical thought, 126–129; genus and species, 103; as instrument of knowledge, 95, 117, 119, 170; ontologies and, 169, 170; original essences and, 577; ornamental function of, 129; of seven rays (hebdomad), 443; smiling meadow, 126, 127–129; symbols and allegories in relation to, 129–140, 155–158; technical study of, 113; theory of language and, 556; in Thomas Aquinas, 140–144
Metaphysics, 6, 34, 319, 396, 461; of Great Chain of Being, 420; Manzonian semiotics and, 489; “metaphysical pansemiosis,” 136
Metaphysics (Aristotle), 6n3, 96, 141, 147, 559; analogia entis and, 162–163; on animals, 174; discourse on equivocity, 160; medieval circulation of, 185
Meteorologica (Aristotle), 96
Metonymy, 98, 133, 164, 370, 433, 503, 579
Michael II the Stammerer, 230
Michelangelo, 544
Middle Ages, 95, 105, 106, 116, 118; aesthetics in, 339; ancient sources on animal behavior viewed in, 185–194; authentication in, 241–243; false identification in, 237–238; metaphor in, 144, 169; millennialism in, 284; ornamental function of metaphor in, 129; poetic allegorism in, 137; “polyphonic” artistic culture of, 343, 344; reading of Aristotle in, 203. See also forgeries, in Middle Ages
Middle Commentary (Averroes), 97, 99–100, 107
Milhaud, Darius, 311
Mill, John Stuart, 355–357, 379–383
Millás Vallicrosa, José M., 398, 400
Millennium (mille annos), Apocalypse and, 275–285
Mimesis, 106
Mimologism, 440
Mineralogy, 24, 25, 46, 434
Mirabilia (Callimachus), 24
Mithridates, Flavius, 408, 414
Mnemonics, 34, 90, 419, 534
Mnemotechnics, 78–82
Modistae grammarians, 232, 296, 301, 305, 308, 373–374
Molar Content (MC), 72
Molière, (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 60
Mona Lisa, authenticity of, 240–241
Mondo simbolico (Picinelli), 192
Monogenetic hypothesis, 441, 446
Montaigne, Michel de, 189n17
Montale, Eugenio, 144
Montano, Rocco, 340
Monti, Vincenzo, 571