La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea

La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea (The Search for the Perfect Language (the Making of Europe); trans.

James Fentress) is a 1993 book by Umberto Eco about attempts to devise an ideal language.

The writing is essayistic and uses the myth of Babel as a paradigm for connecting linguistic and social practices.

Lengthy passages are devoted to Dante, Lull, Kircher, various 17th-century authors and a few less well-known names from later times.

The contemporary project for a politically and culturally unified Europe provides the perspective for a more serious consideration of the theme.