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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
La storia personale di Giambattista Vico è narrata in questa autobiografia scritta nel 1725, opera di profonda umanità e di alto valore stilistico. Figlio di un modesto libraio, compì studi irregolari, nel 1690 si trasferì nel Cilento, come precettore dei figli del marchese Rocca, la cui ricca biblioteca gli permise di studiare i classici della letteratura e della filosofi
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240 pages
Published
January 31st 1963
by Cornell University Press
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A sly humble little autobiography. Son of a bookseller, lowly professor of rhetoric in Naples, Vico managed to intuit a response to the Enlightenment from the scraps of antiquity and sidelong glances at modernity. And always always piety and Plato.
If Mr. Collins from Pride and Prejudice ("I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments") wrote a memoir, it would read a lot like this one.
A great introduction to the work of this philosopher. It breaks down his thought into digestible elements and traces how his influence has impacted the modern view of history.
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Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is titled "Principles/Origins of [re]New[ed] Science about the Common Nature of Nations" (Principi di Scienza Nuova d'intorno alla Comune Natura delle Nazioni). The work is explicitly presente
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