On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians
Subtitle: unearthed from the origins of the Latin language : including the disputation with the Giornale de'letterati d'Italia
By: Giambattista Vico ; translated with an introduction and notes by L. M. Palmer.
Contributors: Palmer, Lucia M.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Ithaca; London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Metaphysics.
Work titles: De antiquissima Italorum sapientia.
Description: Since Robert Flint introduced the thought of Giambattista Vico to the English-speaking world in 1884, the De Antiquissima Italorm Sapientia has been in peculiar position. It has been widely mentioned by Anglo-American philosophers but, unlike Vico's Study Method of Our Time and the New Science, little known in its entirety. Because the De Antiquissima contains Vico's fullest statement of the verum-factum principle, there are many references to the work, but the absence of an English translation until now may explain the lack of full-length monographs devoted to its significance in the development of Vico's philosophy.
Notes: Bibliography: p189-190. - Includes index.

Translation of: De antiquissimaItalorum sapientia.