Poetics (Aristotle), 62, 88, 95, 163; Averroes’s commentary, 97–105; Hermann the German’s translation, 111; medieval misfortunes of, 111–115; on metaphor, 116; William of Moerbeke’s translation, 105–106, 113
Poetria (John of Garland), 105
Poetria nova (Geoffrey of Vinsauf), 125
Poetry, 100, 335, 547, 566; allegory and, 139, 155; history opposed to, 101; intellect and, 325; metaphor and, 140–141, 143; Provençal, 122–123; as revelation, 323–324; Scholasticism and, 31
Pohlenz, Max, 175, 213n39
Polara, Giovanni, 122, 342n32
Politian, 34
Politics (Aristotle), 97, 174, 216
Polygenetic hypothesis, 440, 441, 446
Polygons, networks as, 54
Polyhistor (Solinus), 30, 135
Pomponius Mela, 24
Ponzio, Augusto, 368
Popper, Karl, 486n15, 556, 570
Porphyry, 4, 5–6, 8, 10, 96, 129n12, 162; Academicians and, 176; influence on medieval doctrinal culture, 169; on intelligence of animals, 183; on souls of animals, 182
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 334
Posterior Analytics (Aristotle), 5, 6, 11, 14, 113, 174
Poststructuralism, 570
Pottier, Bernard, 56, 553
Pouillon, Henry, 311, 340n27, 341, 342n31
Poulenc, Francis-Jean-Marcel, 311
Pozzato, Maria Pia, 229n7
Pragmatics, 51
“Prata rident” (Rosier-Catach), 126–129
Predicables, theory of, 5, 6
Pre-Raphaelites, 339
Prieto, Luis Jorge, 553, 581
Primitives, 26, 45; assumed, 18, 19; finiteness and, 20; rational language and, 46; universality and, 21
Prior Analytics (Aristotle), 96, 113
Priscian, 116, 127, 208–209, 210, 212, 213, 214n42, 244, 246, 367
Priscillian of Avila, 254
Problema arithmeticum de rerum combinationibus (Guldin), 420
“Problem of Meaning in Linguistics, The” (Quine), 558
Proclus, 234, 240
Promessi sposi, I [The Betrothed] (Manzoni), 495–496, 500–502, 506–507, 546; action and word in, 488–493; pardon of Father Cristoforo, 499–500; plague chapters, 502–506; popular semiosis and, 493–495; proper names in, 497–499
Proni, Giampaolo, 485n12, 523, 524
Proprium, 6
Proust, Marcel, 534, 546
Proverbs, 27, 242, 509
Pseudepigraphical writings, 225, 238
Pseudo-Aegidius Romanus, 204n29
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, 1, 129n12, 149, 150–159, 165; Llull and, 400, 404; Thomas Aquinas and, 345; translations of, 238
Pseudo-doubles, 226–227
Pseudo-identification, 238–240
Pseudo-Kilwardby, 214n42
Pseudo-Longinus, 240
Pseudo-Marsilius of Inghen, 220
Psychology, 404, 523
Ptolemy, 62
Purgatory (Dante), 251, 252
Putnam, Hilary, 56, 72
Pythagoras, 181
Pythagoreanism, 342
Quadrivium, 31
Quaestio quodlibetalis (Thomas Aquinas), 569
Quillian, Ross, 57, 67n36
Quine, Willard V. O., 20, 491, 554, 558–559
Quintilian, 21n14, 22, 116–117, 119, 121
Rabanus Maurus, 29, 31–32, 87, 135, 186n13, 191n19, 209n37
Rabelais, François, 22–23, 543
Ramée, Pierre de la (Petrus Ramus), 34
Raphael, 534
Rationale divinorum officiorum (Dorando), 2
Rationality, 7, 59, 178, 202, 407
Recherches philosophiques (De Bonald), 441
Reconstructionists, 510, 515, 516
Redundancy, 19
Regulae theologicae (Alain of Lille), 159–160
Reisch, Gregor, 34, 193
Relativism, 567
Remi of Trèves, 230
Renaissance, 33–34, 55, 192, 297, 404; authentication in, 235; Kabbalism in, 385–386; rediscovered knowledge and, 93
Renucci, Paul, 147
Replicability, 225
Representations, 56, 523, 532
Rerum divinarum et humanarum antiquitates (Varro), 25
Reynolds, Barbara, 299, 300
Rhetoric, 31, 34, 111, 414, 432; interpretation and, 257; as part of logic, 112, 113; poetics and, 116–126; treatises on, 1
Rhetoric (Aristotle), 63, 95, 97, 98n7, 99, 163; Hermann the German’s translation, 107–108; medieval misfortunes of, 111–115; Translatio Vetus, 108–110; William of Moerbeke’s translation, 108–110
Rhetorica (Llull), 402
Rhetorica ad Herennium (Aristotle), 78–79n46, 116, 120, 124
Rhizome, 54–55
Rhythmus alter (formerly attrib. Alan of Lille), 130–131, 133, 143
Ricerca della lingua perfetta, La [The Search for a Perfect Language] (Eco), 2
Richard of Lavenham, 213n40
Richard of Saint Victor, 112n17, 131, 272–273, 401
Richards, I. A., 354, 550
Ricoeur, Paul, 65n35
Riedl, Clare, 342n31
Rintelen, Fritz-Joachim von, 346, 347
Rivarol, Antoine de 424
Rivers, Kimberly, 33
Rodulfus Glaber (Rudolph the Hairless), 284
Roland-Gosselin, M.-D., 331n19, 347, 348, 352
Role of the Reader (Eco), 91
Roman de la Rose, 137
Romano, Yehudi, 307
Romanticism, 280n11, 312, 316, 319, 337
Rorty, Richard, 460, 461–462, 581
Rosenau, Helen, 271
Rosenstiehl, Pierre, 55
Rosiello, Luigi, 440
Rosier-Catach, Irène, 112, 114n19, 126, 127, 159, 190, 286
Rossano, Pietro, 251, 261
Rosselli, Cosma, 79–80
Rossi, Paolo, 34n22, 37, 85, 397
Rouault, Georges, 311
Rovatti, Aldo, 564, 565, 577
Royal Society (London), 425
Russell, Bertrand, 20, 354, 381
Saint Martin, Louis-Claude de, 441
Saintsbury, George, 339
Saint-Sever, Beatus of, 252
Salsano, Alfredo, 21n13
Sanders, Henry, 253, 254
San Millan de la Cogolla, Beatus of, 252, 267, 267
San Pedro de Cardeña, Beatus of, 252
San Severo, Beatus of, 268, 268
Santarcangeli, Paolo, 52
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 424–425
Satie, Erik, 311, 312, 316
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 290, 293, 556, 561
Sayers, Dorothy, 299
Scalichius de Lika, Paulus, 23, 387
Schaer, Roland, 21n13
Schank, Roger C., 57
Schelling, Friedrich, 336, 572n5
Schema, 457, 463, 471–474; in Kant’s last writings, 484–487; schema of the dog, 474–478, 483; of unknown object, 478–484
Schlosser-Magnino, Julius von, 340, 342n31
Schogt, Henry G., 553
Schola Palatina, 120
Scholastics (Schoolmen), 115, 160, 163, 312; Bacon’s critique of, 171–172; denotation and, 379, 381; dissolution of, 315; Kant and, 466; Llull and, 400; post-Reformation, 168; souls of animals and, 187
Schola Vindobonensia ad Horatii Artem poeticam, 124
Scholem, Gershom, 415
Schott, Gaspar, 39–40
Sciascia, Leonardo, 91
Sciences, 35–36, 111, 224
Scotus Eriugena, John. See Eriugena, John Scotus
Scotus, Michael, 97
Scriptum super libros Sententiarum (Thomas Aquinas), 166
Scripture (Bible), 29, 112, 120n5, 140, 219; allegory in, 134, 135, 138, 141; anthropomorphization in, 154; authenticity of, 242, 243; biblical exegesis, 253, 260; Dante on allegory in, 145, 146; First Epistle to Corinthians, 130–131, 153; Kabbalism and Christian exegesis, 398; King James Version, 275, 300; metaphors and similes in, 156, 167–168; multiple interpretations of, 258; New Testament, 131–132, 251, 259; Old Testament, 131–133, 252, 269, 281; poetry and, 320; Septuagint, 225, 231; signification in, 196, 197; speech acts in Genesis, 286–290; Thomas Aquinas on allegory in, 142–144; visualization of, 260–273, 266–268; Vulgate, 231, 264n7, 274–275, 286, 288, 300. See also Apocalypse