The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 on a trip from Florence

on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio

and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky

"A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age" — Guardian

Jack is five

The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 on a trip from FlorenceThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance, it was widely believed that the language spoken