Tullio De Mauro, Lia Formigari: Foreword -- 1. ANTONINO PAGLIARO. THEORY AND HISTORY -- Tullio De Mauro: Antonino Pagliaro and Semantic Criticism. With a Bio-Bibliographical Appendix / Walter Belardi: Antonino Pagliaro’s Comparative Linguistics / Eugenio Coseriu: ‘My’ Pagliaro / Donatella Di Cesare: Antonino Pagliaro and the History of Language Sciences / Jürgen Trabant: Sémata: Beyond Pagliaro’s Vico -- 2. ITALIAN STUDIES 1970-1990 -- Daniele Gambarara: The Institutions of Italian Linguistic Historiography / Daniele Gambarara: Studies on Classical Linguistic Ideas / Alfonso Maierù: Studies on Medieval Linguistics / Mirko Tavoni: Renaissance Linguistics / Stefano Gensini: The History of Linguistic Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment and the Early 19th Century / Daniel Droixhe: Povertà ingegnosa, figures du besoin. Vico, Turgot and the Politics of Language / Domenico Santamaria: A Case Study in Italian Linguistic Historiography. Benvenuto Terracini on Graziadio Isaia Ascoli / Lia Formigari: XIXth- and XXth-Century Philosophical Linguistics / Massimo Prampolini: The Analytical Trend / Giulio Lepschy: Historiography of Twentieth-Century Linguistics. A Few Observations -- Index nominum