De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
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De antiquissima Italorum sapientia is a philosophical treatise by Giambattista Vico that explores the origins of human knowledge and ancient Italian wisdom as a foundation for his broader philosophy of history and culture.
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| De antiquissima Italorum sapientia canonical | 3 |
| De antiquissima Italorum sapientia ex linguae latinae originibus eruenda | 1 |
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Target entity: De antiquissima Italorum sapientia Context triple: [Vico, notableWork, De antiquissima Italorum sapientia]
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Summus Poeninus
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De vita libri tres
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Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
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Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
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Divinae Institutiones
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Target entity: De antiquissima Italorum sapientia Target entity description: De antiquissima Italorum sapientia is a philosophical treatise by Giambattista Vico that explores the origins of human knowledge and ancient Italian wisdom as a foundation for his broader philosophy of history and culture.
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A.
Summus Poeninus
Summus Poeninus is the Latin name for the Great St Bernard Pass, a historic Alpine route linking Switzerland and Italy that has served as a key transalpine crossing since antiquity.
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B.
De vita libri tres
De vita libri tres is a 15th-century philosophical and medical treatise by Marsilio Ficino that explores the care of the scholar’s body and soul through astrology, humoral theory, and Neoplatonic thought.
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C.
Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
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D.
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta is a seminal 14th-century Italian lyric poetry collection by Petrarch that helped shape the development of Renaissance humanism and the European sonnet tradition.
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E.
Divinae Institutiones
Divinae Institutiones is an early 4th-century Christian apologetic work by Lactantius that systematically presents and defends Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical treatise ⓘ work of philosophy ⓘ |
| aim |
to derive ancient Italian wisdom from the Latin language
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to ground a new science of human things ⓘ |
| author | Giambattista Vico ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
critique of Cartesian rationalism
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identity of the true and the made ⓘ priority of poetic wisdom ⓘ verum-factum principle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| field |
history of ideas
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philosophy of culture ⓘ |
| fullTitle |
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia ex linguae latinae originibus eruenda
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| genre | scholarly treatise ⓘ |
| hasModernTranslation |
English
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Italian ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early 18th-century Naples ⓘ |
| influenced |
Giambattista Vico's later philosophy of history
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Scienza Nuova ⓘ
surface form:
Scienza nuova
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| influencedBy |
Plato
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Renaissance humanism ⓘ Scholasticism ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ |
| keyTheme |
critique of purely abstract method in philosophy
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origin of metaphysical concepts in poetic and mythic thought ⓘ primacy of practice and making in knowledge ⓘ role of language in the formation of ideas ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| philosopherDiscussed |
René Descartes
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surface form:
Descartes
Plato ⓘ |
| philosophicalPosition |
anti-Cartesian
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emphasis on historical and linguistic foundations of knowledge ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Vichian philosophy ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1710 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
De nostri temporis studiorum ratione
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Scienza Nuova ⓘ
surface form:
Scienza nuova
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| shortTitle | De antiquissima Italorum sapientia self-link ⓘ |
| structure | divided into axioms and corollaries ⓘ |
| subject |
ancient Italian wisdom
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epistemology ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural law ⓘ origins of human knowledge ⓘ philosophy of history ⓘ |
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