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Using discourse analysis, the authors identify the effects of different discoursive fields on the possibilities and constraints defining and subordinating the monstra. In the medieval thinking of ordo, moiistrn is an absolute transcendence that requires taming through discourse. The radically foreign must be considered as a part of the god-given order, even though this will impair its (the order's) beauty and clarity.
This essay examines Italian Humanists' national discourses from Dante to Machiavelli and Guicciardini to demonstrate that the construction of a secondary foreignness emerges through the exclusion, rejection and devaluation of others. The familiarity with others and cornrnon membership in universal Middleage institutions(Church and Kingdom) are the preconditions for any foreigness construction. Thus the foreign is identified through a process of transition from intemal differenciation to exclusion. The authors use discourse analysis to focus on the transferal of cornrnunal and imperial cognitive pattems to a national context which leads to semantic modifications indicating the becoming foreign of the others. Accordingly the demarcation of space would be justified with recourse to an invented past, imagined to be one's own and not the past of the foreigners.