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Index
Abbo of Fleury, 280n11
Abduction, 480, 483, 485, 487
Abelard, Peter, 12, 81, 126, 127, 136n19, 198–200, 205, 231, 232, 233, 361–364, 366n7, 371; authentication and, 231, 233; on denotation, 361–364; on Porphyry, 12–13; Stoic influence and, 197–200; terminology of, 549–550
Abelson, Robert P., 57
Abulafia, Abraham, 301–302, 303–306, 307, 308, 399
Academicians, 175, 176, 179, 182
Accidents, 6, 6n3, 7, 12, 18
Acerba’L (Ascoli), 30
Achilleid (Statius), 230
Achilles and the tortoise, paradox of, 526
Adelard of Bath, 246
Adler, Mortimer, 311
Adso of Montier-en-Der, 283
Advancement of Learning (Francis Bacon), 37, 172n2
Adversus Jovinianum (Saint Jerome), 186
Aelian, Claudius, 24, 180–181, 181n9, 182
Aeneid (Virgil), 138, 571
Aeschylus, 103
Aesop, 138, 139
Aesthetic (Croce), 339, 531–547
Aesthetics, 309–313, 322, 323, 338; aesthetic relativism and, 376; creative intuition and, 326; of Croce, 533; historiography and, 339; intellectual intuition and, 345–352; linguistics and, 532, 540; Romantic, 335–336; Thomistic, 341, 510. See also Art
Affordance, 581
Agent intellect, 327–331, 333
Agriculture, 31, 32
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 75, 409n15, 417–419
Aistheta symbola (perceptible symbols), 152
Alan of Lille, 111, 130, 159–160, 244, 245n14
Albertus Magnus, 97, 111–112, 166, 199n25, 238; aesthetics of, 342, 348; Platonism and, 316, 511
Alciati, Andrea 193
Alcuin, 120, 209n37
Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 27, 28
Alemanno, Yohanan, 302, 303n12, 408
Alexander of Hales, 138, 168, 348
Alexander Romance (attrib. Callisthenes), 24, 30, 135
Alexandria, library of, 24
Al-Farabi, 107, 111, 112, 114
Algazel, 401
Alighieri, Dante, 50, 106, 122, 125, 132, 135, 137, 144–150, 190, 221n49, 230n7, 251, 252, 286–308, 342, 424, 537, 540, 541, 544, 547n4
Allegories, 27, 118, 344; Apocalypse of Saint John as, 250–251; Dante on, 145–149; metaphors and symbolism in relation to, 129–140; metaphors distinguished from, 155; Thomas Aquinas on metaphor and allegory, 140–144; visualization of Scripture and, 272
Allégret, 122
Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 34–36, 72
Ambiguity, 19
Ammonius, 96, 204n29, 209, 210n38, 212, 213
Anagrams, 386–396, 398, 410, 419
Analogia entis (analogy of being), 95, 159–169
Analogy, 126, 159, 163, 167, 168; of proportion, 162; sign-image and, 322
Analytic philosophy, 18
Analytics (Aristotle), 185
Anatomy, 27, 58
Anceschi, Luciano, 544
Angelini, Cesare, 252, 265
Animals, 24, 27, 39, 57, 164; Aristotle on, 6, 16, 23, 65–66, 549; barking dog as intentional agent, 199–200; communication with other animals, 220; divine names and, 153, 156; in fables, 137, 139, 173; grammarians and animal voices, 213–214; inarticulate sounds of, 216; legendary, 47; man as rational animal, 202; in medieval bestiaries, 30, 31; medieval views of ancient sources on, 185–194; names of, 289; Pliny on, 25, 183–185; Porphyrian tree and, 7, 10–11; soul, rights, and language of, 173–185; sounds made by, 204, 209; Wilkins on species, 44–46
Annales Ecclesiastici (Baronio), 281n11
Annales Hirsaugiensis (Trithemius), 281n11
Anonymous Spaniard (Pedro Bermudo), 434, 435
Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, 89, 358, 361, 378m15
Anthropomorphization, 154, 168, 173
Antichrist, 276, 281–284
Anticlaudianus (Alan of Lille), 111
Antigonus of Carystus, 24
“Anti-porfirio, L’ ” [“The Anti-Porphyry”] (Eco), 564–565
Antonomasia, 82n50, 504, 532
Antonymy, 19
Apel, Karl-Otto, 486n14
Apocalipsin libri duodecim (Beatus), 252
Apocalypse (Revelation of Saint John the Divine), 250–252, 256–257; millennium prophecy in, 275–285; theological image of Jerusalem in, 273–274, 276; visualization of Scripture and, 264–265
Apocryphal writings, 225, 238, 239
Apologia (Pico della Mirandola), 409, 410, 415
Apologie pour tous les grands hommes qui ont été accusés de magie (Naudé), 385
“Apology for Raymond Sebond” (Montaigne), 189n17
Appellatio, theory of, 361, 368
Apperception, 471
Apresjan, Jurij D., 553
Arabic language, 22, 96–98, 107, 108, 234, 454
Arbor Porphyriana (Porphyrian tree), 4–18, 26, 45, 169, 170, 193n20; Croce’s critique of, 532; Great Chain of Being and, 87; Llull’s scientific trees and, 33, 406; matrix compared with, 211; ontologies and, 60; open-ended conception of knowledge and, 55; purpose of, 35; schematism and, 481; semantics and, 550
Arbor scientiae [Tree of Science] (Llull), 33, 404–408
Archaeology, 85