La grammatica lulliana dal trivium all’Arte

The grammar plays a marginal role in the process of re-foundation of knowledge that Ramon Llull engages since 1290. While rhetoric and logic are the subject of two specific works (Rhetorica nova of 1301 and Logica nova of 1303), the grammar is probed through the artistic principles only in Ars Generalis Ultima (1305-8) within the ‘Hundred forms’. The paper traces the stages of this inclusion through the definitions given in the Lullian corpus, discusses the hypothesis of a speculative orientation of the discipline and underlines the importance of 'declinare' as the basis of analogy between the grammar’s modi and correlative principles that structure the dynamic ontology of Art. The findings show that grammar is another chapter of the "dispersed" Lullian philosophy of language, far from the articulation and purposes of the Modistic model.