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Search names and terms in Franklin Catalog or in the various journal databases and reference platforms, or in the various disciplinary dictionaries and encyclopedias. A search in Franklin brings up titles such as
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language Van Pelt Library. PQ4615.B5 Z88 2005
On language: Descent from the Tower of Babel Van Pelt Library. P116 .M46 1994
Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything Van Pelt Library. CT1098.K46 A738 2004 (also rarebooks)
Leibniz, Language, Signs, and Thought: A Collection of Essays Van Pelt Library. P85.L4 D36 1987
Leibniz and the Problem of a Universal Language Van Pelt Library. PM8004 .P6 1987
Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun Van Pelt Library. BS1235.52 .F95 2007
Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem Van Pelt Library. BM526 .S35 1974
Ramon Lull and Lullism in Fourteenth-Century France Van Pelt Library. B765.L84 H54
The Conception of Man in the Works of John Amos Comenius Van Pelt Library. B4805.C64 C59 2016
Dante's Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity Van Pelt Library. PQ4429.A2 D36 2010
Library of Congress Classification
P languages and literatures
[PA Greek and Latin, PE English, PF German, PG Russian, PL Japanese, Chinese, PM Hyperborian, "new world languages", constructed languages, PQ French, Spanish, Italian,
PM (beginning at PM 8000) Artificial or Universal languages-both the idea of and specific languages
Browse titles in these scholarly book series (searching Franklin Catalog)
Guglielmo Ferrero, Historian
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