| Title: | Incogniti |
| Original Title: | Incogniti |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 8 (1765), p. 652 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (possibly) (biography) |
| Translator: | S [UCD Dublin, Ireland] |
| Subject terms: |
Literary history
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis (possibly). "Incogniti." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by S. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2009. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.098>. Trans. of "Incogniti," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 8. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis (possibly). "Incogniti." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by S. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.098 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Incogniti," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 8:652 (Paris, 1765). |
Incogniti [The Unknowns], the name adopted by a literary society, founded in Venice, which has the River Nile as its emblem and the following epigraph as its motto: Incognito e pur noto [unknown and yet known]. If men of letters were less hungry for glory, and more interested in knowledge than in self-promotion, greater harmony would reign amongst them, human knowledge would make greater progress, and such high value would not be put on often dubious rankings.