Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From the Tree to the Labyrinth -- 2. Metaphor as Knowledge:Aristotle's Medieval (Mis)Fortunes -- 3. From Metaphor to Analogia Entis -- 4. The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) -- 5. Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages -- 6. Jottings on Beatus of Liébana -- 7. Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah -- 8. The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts -- 9. Toward a History of Denotation -- 10. On Llull, Pico, and Llullism -- 11. The Language of the Austral Land -- 12. The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre -- 13. On the Silence of Kant -- 14. Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) -- 15. The Threshold and the Infinite: Peirce and Primary Iconism -- 16. The Definitions in Croce's Aesthetic -- 17. Five Senses of the Word "Semantics," from Bréal to the Present Day -- 18. Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation -- References -- Index.