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Hieroglyphs & Linguistics
Boas, George. 1950. The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, translated. New York: Pantheon/The Bollingen Series XXIII. A translation of this influential early work of hieroglyphic interpretation.  Reprinted with a new foreword as Boas 1993.
Boas, George. 1993. The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, translated. With a new foreword by Anthony Grafton. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology XXIII. Reprint of Boas 1950 with a new foreword.
De Salvia, Fulvio. 1991. Cataldo Jannelli e gli studi di egittologia a Napoli nella prima metà del secolo XIX.  In: L'Egitto fuori dell'Egitto. Dalla riscoperta all'Egittologia. Ed. Cristiana Morigi Govi, Silvio Curto, Sergio Pernigotti [Atti del Convegno Internazionale Bologna 26-29 marzo 1990], Bologna, Editrice CLUEB [Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice]: 107-119.
NEW 7/08: Dieckmann, Lisolette. 1970. Hieroglyphics: the history of a literary symbol. St. Louis: Washington University Press.
Finzi, Claudio. 1991. Leon Battista Alberti: geroglifici e gloria. In: L'Egitto fuori dell'Egitto. Dalla riscoperta all'Egittologia. Ed. Cristiana Morigi Govi, Silvio Curto, Sergio Pernigotti [Atti del Convegno Internazionale Bologna 26-29 marzo 1990], Bologna, Editrice CLUEB [Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice]: 205-208.
Iversen, Erik.  1958.  Hieroglyphic studies of the Renaissance. Burlington Magazine 100.648: 15-21. Reprint for Iversen 1961.
Thissen, Heinz J. 1993. Zur Umgang mit der ägyptischen Sprache in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (Bonn) 97: 239-252.
Thissen, Heinz-Josef,. 1994. Horapollinis Hieroglyphika. Prolegomenao. In: Aspekte spätägyptischer Kultur. Festschrift für Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. Martina Minas, Jürgen Zeidler. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern  = Aegyptiaca Treverensia. Trierer Studien zum Griechisch-Römischen Ägypten 7: 255-263. (fig.).  Horapollo's Hieroglyphica examined Egyptologically.
Vercoutter, Jean. 1992. Le déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes égyptiens: 1680-1840.  In: The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt. Studies presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Ed. Ulrich Luft.  Budapest: Studia Aegyptiaca: 579-586.
NEW 7/08: Wittkower, Rudolf. 1972. Hieroglyphs in the Early Renaissance. In: Developments in the Early Renaissance. Ed. Bernard S. Levy. Albany: State University of New York Press:57-72. Reprinted in: Allegory and the Migration of Symbols by Rudolf Wittkower. 1977. London: Thames & Hudson:113-28.
 

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From Marco Polo to Leibniz: stories of intercultural misunderstanding by Umberto Eco <<http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/pdfs/lectures/eco_marco.pdf>> Text of a lecture delivered 10 December 1996 at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.

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