This collection of 12 essays are a result of a December 1999 colloquium at the Berlin Academy which brought together researchers currently involved in the debate over the origin of language. Topics i
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for his epic poem la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), written in what became standardized Italian. In Convivio and De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dante treated te
