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Main Author: Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Taylor, Jason (Translator, Editor), Miner, Robert C., 1970- (Translator, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Explication of the Picture Put Forward as the Frontispiece, to Serve as the Introduction to the Work
  • Chronological Table
  • Book One On the Establishment of Principles
  • Annotations for the Chronological Table, in Which Is Made an Arrangement of Materials
  • On the Elements
  • On the Principles
  • On Method
  • Book Two On Poetic Wisdom
  • On Wisdom in General
  • Exposition and Partitioning of Poetic Wisdom
  • On the Universal Flood and the Giants
  • On Poetic Metaphysics, in Which Are Given the Origins of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices
  • Corollaries concerning the principal aspects of this science
  • On Poetic Logic
  • Corollaries concerning poetic tropes, monstrosities, and transformations
  • Corollaries concerning the earliest nations speaking through poetic characters
  • Corollaries concerning the origins of languages and letters, and therein the origins of hieroglyphics, of laws, of names, of insignia of noble houses, of medallions, and of money; and, so, the origins of the earliest language and literature of the natural law of the gentile peoples
  • Corollaries concerning the origins of poetic locution, digression, inversion, rhythm, song, and verse
  • additional corollaries that were proposed above
  • Final corollaries concerning the logic of the learned
  • On Poetic Morals, and Therein on the Origins of the Commonplace Virtues Taught by Religion Along with Marriage
  • On Poetic Economics, and Therein on the Earliest Families Comprised of Children
  • On the families comprised offamilial servants prior to cities, without which it was completely impossible for cities to come into being
  • Corollaries concerning contracts completed by consent alone
  • Mythological canon
  • On Poetic Politics, by Which the Earliest Republics in the World Came to Be in the Strictest Aristocratic Form
  • All republics have come to be from certain eternal principles of fealties
  • On the origins of the census and the treasury
  • On the origins of the Roman assemblies
  • Corollary: It is divine providence which is the institutor of the orders of republics and, at the same time, of the natural law of the gentile peoples
  • Heroic politics, continued
  • Corollaries concerning the ancient Roman things and, in particular, the dreamed-up monarchical regime in Rome and the dreamed-up popular liberty instituted by Junius Brutus
  • Corollaries concerning the heroism of the earliest peoples
  • Epitomes of poetic history
  • On Poetic Physics
  • On the poetic physics concerning man---that is, on heroic nature
  • Corollary on heroic sentences
  • Corollary on heroic descriptions
  • Corollary on heroic customs
  • On Poetic Cosmography
  • On Poetic Astronomy
  • astronomical physico-philological demonstration of the uniformity of principles in all the ancient gentile nations
  • On Poetic Chronology
  • Chronological canon for giving the beginnings of universal history, which must have begun its course prior to the monarchy of Ninus, from which that universal history is presumed to start
  • On Poetic Geography
  • Corollary on Aeneas coming to Italy
  • On the naming and describing of heroic cities
  • Book Three On the Discovery of the True Homer
  • On the Recondite Wisdom That Has Been Opined about Homer
  • On the Fatherland of Homer
  • On the Age of Homer
  • On the Unaccountable Faculty of Homer for Heroic Poetry
  • Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer
  • Philological Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer
  • Discovery of the True Homer
  • lack of congruity and the lack of verisimilitude belonging to the Homer believed in up until now becomes, with the Homer herein discovered, agreeableness and necessity
  • poems of Homer are found to be the two great treasure houses of the natural law of the gentile peoples of Greece
  • rational history of dramatic and lyric poetry
  • Book Four On the Course That the Nations Make
  • Three Kinds of Natures
  • Three Kinds of Customs
  • Three Kinds of Natural Law
  • Three Kinds of Governance
  • Three Kinds of Languages
  • Three Kinds of Characters
  • Three Kinds of Jurisprudence
  • Three Kinds of Authority
  • Three Kinds of Reason
  • Corollary on the wisdom of the ancient Romans in matters of state
  • Corollary: Foundational history of Roman law
  • Three Kinds of Judgments
  • Corollary on duels and reprisals
  • Three Sects of Times
  • Additional Proofs Treating the Properties of Heroic Aristocracies
  • On Guardianship Over Boundaries
  • On Guardianship Over Orders
  • On Guardianship Over Laws
  • Additional Proofs Taken from the Moderating Which Happens of the Subsequent Constitutions of Republics Because of the Prior Ways of Governing
  • On the eternal and natural royal law through which nations come to rest under monarchies
  • Refutation of the principles of a political teaching based upon the system of Jean Bodin
  • Final Proofs Which Confirm That This Is the Course of Nations
  • Corollary: Ancient Roman law was a serious poem, and ancient jurisprudence was a severe poetry, within which are found the earliest roughed-out features of a legal metaphysics: and how for the Greeks philosophy came from the laws
  • Book Five On the Recurrence of Human Things During the Resurgence That the Nations Make
  • Recurrence Nations Make in Accordance with the Eternal Nature of Fealties; and, Consequently, the Recurrence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law
  • Depiction of the World of Nations, Ancient and Modern, with Observations Conforming to the Design of the Principles of This Science.