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A Prophet of Divine Wisdom?
- In the nineteenth century, the reception of Giambattista Vico’s writings came along with nationalist interpretations of his Scienza Nuova as an ‘Italian Science’. This tendency was based upon an increased examination of the role that the philosopher Pythagoras and his Italian school of Croton played in Vico’s hierarchical conception of the ancient Greek and Italian civilizations. Writers, archaeologists and historians used the New Science as a metonymic reference work for their own nationalist concepts by updating the Pythagorean myth in accordance with relevant narratives of exclusive genealogies concerning an ancient Italian wisdom. These narratives follow tendencies in Vico’s own writings that were quoted strategically and mixed with further interpretations of the Scienza Nuova as reliable testimonial for a glorious Italian history. A theological poet characterized by deeper insight into the secrets of nature and some parts of the divine providence, Pythagoras gains his special position in Vico’s general conception of knowledge.
Author details: | Markus Alexander LenzGND |
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URL: | https://brill.com/view/journals/phen/5/1/article-p50_4.xml |
ISBN: | 2451-9189 |
ISSN: | 2451-9197 |
Title of parent work (English): | Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico |
Subtitle (English): | Giambattista Vico and the Construction of the Pythagorean Myth |
Publisher: | Brill |
Place of publishing: | Leiden |
Editor(s): | Dayeh Islam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/04/15 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2021/02/12 |
Tag: | Cuoco; Italian nationalism; Mazzoldi;; Pythagoras; Pythagorean myth; prophet |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 1 |
First page: | 50 |
Last Page: | 75 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik |
DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 840 Literaturen romanischer Sprachen; Französische Literatur |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |