On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language

Name: On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language
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ISBN: 9780801495113

ISBN-10: 0801495113

ISBN-13: 9780801495113

Edition: 1988

Authors: Giambattista Vico, L. M. Palmer, L. M. Palmer, L. M. Palmer

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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.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/23/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Italian philosopher and scholar Giambattista Vico was born in Naples on June 23, 1668. He attended Jesuit schools and the University of Naples, where he was later the professor of rhetoric. The New Science, his work on the relationship between theoretic ideals and social realities included Establishment of Principles, Poetic Wisdom, Discovery of the True Homer, The Course of Nations, and the Recurrence of Things in the Resurgence of the Nations. Giambattista Vico died in Naples in 1744.

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