- Qa faut avouer, dit Trouscaillon qui, dans cette simple ellipse, utilisait hyperboliquement Ie cercle vicieux de la parabole. - Bun, dit Ie Sanctimontronais, j'y vais. (R. Queneau, Zazie dans Ie metru, Chapitre X.) L'etude des groupes infinis a toujours ete en relation etroite avec des considerations geometriques: etude des deplacements de l'espace euclidien R3 (Jordan, 1868), programme d'Erlangen (Klein, 1872), travaux de Lie et Poincare. L'approche combinatoire des groupes, fondee sur la notion de presentation, remonte a Dyck (1882) mais doit son developpement en premier lieu a Dehn (des 1910) (voir ChM]). Les resultats decisifs de Dehn sur les groupes fondamentaux des sur faces sont marques par un ingredient geometrique crucial qui est la couTbuTe negati.ve. C'est ce me-me ingredient qui est ala base du tra vail fondamental de Gromov sur les groupes hyperboliques, conune on Ie voit esquisse dans Gr2, Gr4] et repris dans Gr5]. Nous sonuues cOllvaincus que l'importance de ce travail dans Ie developpement. de la theorie des groupes est comparable it ceux deja cites de Klein et Dehll."

The only complete extant version of the life of Saint Alexius by the Milanese author Bonvesin da la Riva is to be found in Manuscript 93 of the Biblioteca Trivulziana from the late 14th century. Whereas earlier editors (Contini and GAkAen) were concerned to reconstruct the 13th century original, the present volume provides the first interpretive edition of this important Old Lombardic text. The historical linguistic aspect of the text is covered in the introduction, the notes, and a complete index of words and word forms. In terms of literary history, the volume also provides the foundations for an appreciation of Bonvesin as one of the first great Italian narrative artists.

Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Mayans. Each of these peoples developed a restricted set of symbols capable of recording any possible discourse in their spoken language. Much later, between 1700 and 1900, prophets and shamans of the Native American tribes developed “bounded� writing methods, designed to ensure the transmission of ceremonial rituals whose notational principles differed profoundly from more familiar forms of writing. Pierre Déléage draws on a deep and comparative study of historical and ethnographic evidence to propose the groundbreaking thesis that all writing systems were initially bounded methods, reversing the accepted historical perspective and making it possible to revise our conception of the origin of the other great writing systems. The Invention of Writing offers new conceptual tools for answering a simple question: Why have humans repeatedly expended the immense intellectual effort required to invent writing?

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