Confronted with the drama of linguistic fragmentation, the European culture started speculating about a remedy for linguistic confusion. Some looked backwards, trying to retrieve the language spoken by Adam. Others looked ahead, thinking of Language of Reason possessing the perfection of the lost speech of Eden. It is very difficult to reconcile the invention of a new national language with the mystical persuasion that the only perfect idiom was the Hebrew spoken by Adam. If Dante really believed so, he should have written his Divine comedy in Hebrew.
Perfect languages are very difficult to master.
In the XVI and XVII century many tried to go back to Hebrew.