On the Shoulders of Giants

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by Umberto Eco


  Venus de Milo, 202

  Vercingetorix, 10

  vernacular, 6–8, 19

  Vico, Giambattista, 15

  Victory of Samothrace, 16, 19, 39

  Vicuña, Laura, 279

  Vie de Monsieur Descartes (Baillet), 230

  Vignoli, Roberto, 245

  villains, Bond, 61–62

  Virgil, 5–6, 9

  virtue, beauty as element of, 31

  Vision of Ezekiel (Raphael), 184

  visions. See Fatima; Lourdes; Medjugorje

  Vitry, Jacques de, 46

  Vittorino, Mario, 190

  Voltaire, 46

  Wagner, Richard, 56

  Wandering Jew, The (Sue), 249

  Webster, Nesta, 188–189

  Weinrich, Harald, 183

  West, defense of, 90

  Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 87

  Wiesel, Elie, 80, 96

  WikiLeaks, 226

  Wilde, Oscar, 157–166

  William of Auvergne, 45, 197

  William of Conches, 12

  William of Ockham, 264–265

  Winter’s Tale, A (Shakespeare), 129

  words, meaning of, 75–77

  World Trade Center, 235–236. See also 9 / 11

  Xenophanes of Colophon, 26

  Yates, Frances, 229

  Zeno, 147

  zeppa, 203–204, 205

  Zero. Perché la versione ufficiale sull’11 / 9 è un falso (Zero: Why the Official Version of 9 / 11 is a Fake; Chiesa and Vignoli), 245

  Zibaldone (Leopardi), 199

 

 

 


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