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Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian analysis and other types of reductionism impractical to human life, and he was an apologist for classical antiquity and the Renaissance humanities, in addition to being the first expositor of the fund…
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culture · Italian philosopher (1668–1744) · philosopher · sociologist · historian · collector of fairy tales · jurist · legal scholar · also Giambattista Vico, Gianbattista Vico, Giovan Battista Vico, John Baptist Vico, Giovanni Battista Vico, Vico
Born 23 June 1668 · Died 23 January 1744 · Q178709
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2024· 1 entry
Il Mattino: Giambattista Vico, la Scienza Nuova: dal ministero stop all'asta del libro con le note autografe
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2023· 1 entry
Il Foglio: Giambattista Vico raccontato da Marcello Veneziani sia di consolazione a noi crepuscolari
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2018· 2 entries
Il Mattino: Giambattista Vico, sfregiato l'omaggio in piazza Municipio a Napoli
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Fanpage.it: Maggio dei Monumenti: Napoli celebra il genio di Giambattista Vico a 350 anni dalla nascita
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2013· 1 entry
il Giornale: Giambattista Vico, il filosofo buono per tutte le ideologie
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1744· 1 entry
Died 1744-01-23.
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1668· 1 entry
Born 1668-06-23.
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