Stefano Gensini

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefano Gensini plays a role.

Articles

This paper aims at a re-consideration of Claudio Tolomei’s Il Cesano de la lin­gua Toscana (1525, with later revisions) from a philosophical-linguistic point of view. The author focuses on the way Tolomei described the realm of language as conditioned by social-spatial and time coordinates.… read more
This paper deals with the linguistic subjects in Theophrastus redivivus (1659?), an anonymous masterpiece of French Free-thinkers movement. Attention is paid, firstly, to the criticism of the concept of god, whose existence is denied mainly on linguistic grounds; secondly, to the anti-Cartesian… read more
Gensini, Stefano 1995 The ‘Imperfect’ Language: Notes on Alessandro Manzoni's linguistic ideasHistorical Roots of Linguistic Theories, Formigari, Lia and Daniele Gambarara (eds.), pp. 151 ff. | Article