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Del bello forgotten paths etymology and the allegorical mind chapter 6 emithologia etymology x27 s riddles from 1500 to 1700

Copyright ? Catholic University of America Press All rights reserved chapter Emithologia Etymology ? s Riddles from to the practice of etymologizing underwent subtle continual changes towards the end of the Middle Ages and throughout the period commonly known as the Renaissance It may be true as some have argued that such changes were more in emphasis than in content and that ??the new was bound to the old by ultimate faith in the power of etymology ? But in the large-scale rearrangement of the semiotic landscape that charted the gradual collapse of medieval culture the fact that etymologizing came to be conceived more and more as matter of technique seems highly consequential Some hu- Frank Borchardt ??Etymology in Tradition and in the Northern Renaissance ? Journal of the History of Ideas no Notable late medieval examples of the etymegorizing mode may be found in Giovanni Boccaccio ? s shaky etymologies in Filostrato the title itself erroneously etymologized as ??the man vanquished and struck down by love ? and Filocolo Perhaps the most notorious instance comes from Boccaccio ? s Genealogie deorum gentilium libri ed Vincenzo Romano Bari Laterza I ?? where the ancient deity Demogorgon is presented as the founder of a whole progeny of gods by way of a faulty derivation con ating Latin daemon demon and Greek demos people For a discussion of this ??grammatical error become god ? see Jean Seznec ? s The Survival of the Pagan Gods The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art trans Barbara F Sessions Princeton N J Princeton University Press especially pages and following In most cases late medieval and early Renaissance etymologizing follows the patterns of Isidore or Balbus as in the case of laborinthus fancifully derived from the ??labour ? of ??entering ? a maze As Thomson notes Chaucer may have had this etymology in mind N S Thomson Chaucer Boccaccio and the Debate of Love Oxford Oxford University Press On the close interaction between mythography rhetoric and grammar see Jane Chance ? s Medieval Mythography vol Gainesville University Press of Florida From a semiotic viewpoint the Renaissance may be generally said to mark a process of a ??syntagmatization ? whereby language is exhausted on the level of the ??signi ?er ? along word chains syntagms rather than explored as a paradigmatic pointer to transcendence This ironically precipitates the rationalistic turn of the seventeenth century when we witness in Bottiroli ? s words a broader ??war waged by literalism against ?guralism ? of the kind extensively explored by Michel Foucault Bottiroli Jacques Lacan See Michel Foucault The Order Del Bello Davide Forgotten Paths Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset Catholic University of America Press ProQuest Ebook Central http ebookcentral proquest com lib brown detail action docID Created from brown on - - CE T Y M O L O G Y ? S R I D D L E S ?? ?? manists invested rhetoric and etymology with unprecedented prestige but while they kept the