Diccionario de símbolos

Since the time of the Egyptians, the study of symbols has been a major science of antiquity. In the East, it endured uninterrupted well into the twentieth century, while in the West, it inspired all medieval art—as well as much of Renaissance and Baroque art—until the discovery of the "unconscious" brought symbols back into play in vastly different contexts and ways. This *Dictionary of Symbols* is the final, definitive version of the most important prose work by the poet and art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot. First published in 1958 under the title *Diccionario de símbolos tradicionales* (Dictionary of Traditional Symbols), it was translated into English in 1962. Cirlot continued to develop new entries and articles, incorporating them into the second Spanish edition (1969) and the second English/American edition (1971). This edition includes new entries—previously published only in English—as well as the article "Phonetic Symbolism," representing the final area of ​​Cirlot’s symbolic studies, recovered here from its original periodical publication.