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