{"content":[{"text":"540","bbox":{"left":0.153043,"top":0.05511,"width":0.03670699999999999,"height":0.018852}},{"text":"JIES Reviews","bbox":{"left":0.729855,"top":0.055563,"width":0.11939099999999991,"height":0.018430000000000002}},{"text":"publication on the topic of Renaissance Baltic linguistics \n was an Italian article “Baltic Languages and Cultures in \n Renaissance: Baltic Theonyms in ‘Il Regno degli Slavi’ by \n M. Orbini,” printed in 1991 (this and all other translations \n into English in the review are mine—G. S.). Then dozens \n of articles in various languages (mostly in Italian, \n Lithuanian, German, and some in English and French) \n followed, so that to finalize his work in a single volume Dini \n had to rework (often to translate?) his ideas into one \n language—his native Italian. \n The title of the book ALILETOESCVR is a riddle to \n almost everyone who comes across it. Dini hints that this is \n “a mysterious expression of an alchemic origin posted as an \n emblem—more than a title—for this book; it was coined by \n an adventurous and vagabond follower of Paracelsus to \n point to the rich linguistic variety on the eastern coast of \n the Baltic sea” (p. 21). But Dini does not decipher the \n emblem at once and leaves it to the reader to unearth an \n answer in the depths of his opus. Two attached subtitles, \n however, help: “Origins of Baltic Linguistics; Linguistic \n Theories and Contexts in the Sixteenth Century.” \n Instead of writing several books, Dini composed one \n huge volume. He confesses he was deliberating between two \n different paths: short or long redaction. He opted for the \n second type (p. 24). So now most of the chapters include \n quite long quotations of original sources, and often \n chapters are concluded with appendices of even more \n extended excerpts from the same sources. I would assume \n that source quotations take up to about 15% to 20% of \n Dini’s book; and those are in many languages: Latin, \n German, Polish, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, French, \n English, and Russian. The quotations are intended to \n substitute in part the originals (presented in original \n orthography), so the reader has fewer reasons to reach out \n for those rare resources himself. Dini has travelled around \n Europe and gathered data in various libraries of Italy, \n Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, France, Lithuania, \n and Latvia; he also visited certain libraries in the U.S.A. All \n this resulted in his magnum opus, which beside linguistic \n history covers certain aspects of history, religion, beliefs, \n customs, and geography of the Baltic people. In a sense it is \n a 16th century encyclopedia for the Baltic territories,","bbox":{"left":0.153043,"top":0.098257,"width":0.6938059999999999,"height":0.7966909999999999}},{"text":"The Journal of Indo-European Studies","bbox":{"left":0.153044,"top":0.923753,"width":0.36057200000000006,"height":0.018429999999999946}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}