On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians : unearthed from the origins of the Latin language : including the disputation with the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia
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On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians : unearthed from the origins of the Latin language : including the disputation with the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia
Cornell University Press, 1988
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De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
Giornale de' letterati d'Italia
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Translation of: De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
Bibliography: p. 189-190
Includes indexes
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On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger work that was never published, and it marks Vico's transition from rhetorician to philosopher of historical knowledge.
This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and 1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.
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