Roma e la riscoperta delle "perduta e morta lingua egizia dei Cofti" tra il Concilio di Firenze e la pubblicazione di lingia "aegyptiaca restituta"

The rediscovery of the Coptic language began with the Council of Florence, which represented the illusion of a possible reconciliation between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. Although this union was never accomplished, the first nucleus of Copto-Arabic manuscripts that came as a gift on that occasion constituted the premises for the recovery of the Egyptian language of the Christian age, progressively allowing access to some of the oldest Christian texts that Greek manuscripts had not preserved. This article attempts to trace the stages of this slow rediscovery, philological and ideological at the same time, from the unsuccessful council of Florence to the publication of Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta by Athanasius Kircher (1643).