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On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians : drawn out from the origins of the Latin language / Giambattista Vico; translated by Jason Taylor ; with an introduction by Robert Miner.

Title
On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians : drawn out from the origins of the Latin language / Giambattista Vico; translated by Jason Taylor ; with an introduction by Robert Miner.
Author
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Miner, Robert
  • Taylor, Jason
Description
xxxiv, 143 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume comprises a new critical edition and translation of Giambattista Vico's challenging and provoking early work On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians. The Latin edition faithfully reproduces Vico's original 1710 text as first printed; it is accompanied by Jason Taylor's complete, accurate, and highly readable English translation." "In an illuminating introduction to the volume, Robert Miner elucidates Vico's short but difficult work; at the same time, he allows the reader to assess the importance of that work, in absolute terms as well as relative to Vico's other writings and the work of his numerous interlocutors in the republic of letters." "Taken as a whole, this volume provides the text and guidance to support a fresh engagement with Vico's thought, especially his earliest philosophical works. It will also serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars with interests in eighteenth-century thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia. English.
Alternative Title
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia.
Subject
  • Antiken
  • Metaphysics > Early works to 1800
  • Philosophy, Ancient > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
Early works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Concerning the true and the made -- Concerning Genera, or concerning ideas -- Concerning causes -- Concerning essences, or concerning powers -- Concerning the soul and the life-breath -- Concerning mind -- Concerning faculty -- Concerning the supreme artificer
ISBN
  • 9780300136913
  • 0300136919
OCLC
  • 601348202
  • SCSB-12703817
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library