Download or read book Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists written by Angelo Mazzocco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante Alighieri's argument on the question of the language stimulated the debate among fifteenth century humanists. This book provides a novel and open-ended reading of Dante's literature on language as well as a systematic reconstruction of the whole body of humanistic literature on linguistic phenomena.