GRICE E ZORZI -- L'ARMONIA DEL MONDO -- FILOSOFIA ITALIANA -- LUIGI SPERANZA

Grice e Zorzi – l’armonia del mondo -- filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Venezia). Essential Italian philosopher. Grice: “For some reason, in the Veneto area, they cannot pronounce the /dg/, which becomes /z/ as everyone who is familiar with Giorgone – as in Quine’s infamous example -- would know!”. Filosofo italiano. Opere: “L'armonia del mondo” (Campanini, "Il Pensiero occidentale", Bompiani, Milano), “De harmonia mundi” (Lavis-Firenze, La Finestra), “L'Elegant: Poema e Commento sopra il Poema, Maillard, Arché Edidit, Milano Paris. S. Onda, “Le vicende costruttive della chiesa e del convento”, “Il progetto di Sansovino e il memoriale di Zorzi” “La teoria ermetica di Zorzi,” in “La chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna e il convento dei Frati Minori” (Venezia, San Francesco della Vigna), S. Campanini, “Le fonti del ‘De Harmonia mundi’ di Zorzi, in “Annali di Ca' Foscari”; Campanini, “La struttura simbolica del ‘De Harmonia mundi’ di Zorzi, in “Materia Giudaica”. Argento. “Il cardinale e l'architetto: Aleandro e il rinascimento adriatico” (Apostrofo, Cremona). Grice: “Zorzi is an interesting one, as a proof that, in Italy, they take the Hebrew language seriously! They call it a classic, even! I wish I had learned some all those years I boarded at Clifton!” – Grice: “While the concept of ‘harmonia mundi’ may claim a Judaeo-Christian heritage, as the Italians put it – a heritage they lack! --, it is SO EASY to reconstruct the ‘harmonia mundi’ in purely Aryan, that is, Pythagorean terms! The root of ‘mundo’ are complex enough, and the English language lacks the concept, preferring vir-hood, ‘world,’ instead. ‘Harmonia’ is possibly so hellenic that CICERONE never cared to find the proper Roman indigenous cognate! Zorzi. Keywords: armonia conversazionale. Refs.: H. P. Grice, The Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft Library, The University of California, Berkeley, Luigi Speranza, “Grice e Zorzi: l’armonia del mondo,” The Swimming-Pool Library, Villa Speranza, Liguria.