...Domenico Vittorini Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 GIAMBATTISTA VICO AND REALITY AN EVALUATION OF DE NOSTRI TEMPORIS STUDIORUM RATIONE (1708) By DOMENICOVITTORINI The opening exercises at the University...

..., this is a penetrating and stimulating study which every student of eighteenth-century German literature will enjoy reading. FRITZL. COHN Berkeley, California The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. Translated from the Ital- ian by MAX HAROLDFISCH...

... Selbstdarstellungen Giambat- tista Vicos und Pietro Giannones: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der itali- enischen Autobiographie. By HANS-JURGENDAUS. Genttve: Librairie E. Droz; Paris: Librairie Minard, Kolner Romanistische Arbeiten, Neue Folge, Heft 20, 1962. 131 pp. It is significant...

... of Anachronism Srinivas Aravamudan n Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations I(1744), Giambattista Vico describes four kinds of anachronism: “The first error regards as uneventful periods which were actually full...

... of their published appearances suggests this possibility. Said’s and Bloom’s swerves from their shared precursors (Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Giambattista Vico) result in the misprision that allows them “to retain [each other’s] terms but to mean them in another sense” (AI, 14): Bloom names his...

.... FRITZL. COHN Berkeley, California The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico. Translated from the Ital- ian by MAX HAROLDFISCH and THOMASGODDARD BERGIN. Ith- aca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1944. Pp. ix + 240. $2.50. Under the punning sign of the cornel or dogwood, Cornus...

..., such for in- stance as the thought that perhaps some of the stimulants which Tennyson and Hugo offered to another generation may have been drawn from Neapolitan cellars. The belated vogue that Vico’s work enjoyed in the nineteenth century makes one wonder whether the height of his influence has...

... resurrection of the past.” To Haac this is not just a matter of dCcor: Michelet needed to revive the whole soul of the past so that it might speak its message fully and thereby further the revolution- ary ideal. The guiding principles (and not the influence of Vico!) thus led him to his most...

... in seeming to promise a rise-and-fall, blow-by-blow chronological account. In fact there is no discussion of the “rise” of epic at all, and the “decline” is accounted for in the epilogue only, called “The Disappearance of Homer and the End of Homeric Allegory: Vico and Wolf” (pp. 173-96), where...

... that Pythagoras established in southern Italy around 530 BC. The polemical intention of Plato in Italy  is to reclaim, after Giambattista Vico, an antiquissima Italorum sapientia, an Italian origin of culture to pit against French claims of superiority.3 Despite its heralded origins, culture in southern...

...- ing Company, 1944. Pp. 113. Fisch, Max Harold, and Bergin, Thomas Goddard (translators). The Auto- biography of Giambattista Vico. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1944. Pp. viii + 240. $2.50. SCANDINAVIAN Schildt, Runar ; Bergman, Hjalmar...

... through an architectonic diagram (p. 76); a discussion of Vico revolves around his pictorial frontispiece and gets more involved with mythical roots than with rationalistic insights (p. 148). Music can also be instanced as representational; but The Magic FZute is accorded a paradoxical twist when...

..., Ludo- vico Vives, Clement Marot, Edmund Spenser, and Sebastian Brant. The reader who takes the advice of the author and approaches the book with the attentiveness it demands and merits will be amply repaid by knowledge and the sheer pleasure of the travel through often unfamiliar...

... in much detail. It is surprising, in a book that contrib- utes so importantly to our knowledge of the origins of historicism, to find no reference to Vico and only one passing notice of Herder. The emphasis seems to be choice on Manley’s part rather than any intrinsic limitation: his resonant...

... that “refers both to the actual origin and order of the physical world as well as to the theories that we invent to comprehend the vastness of the whole” (9). (Giambattista Vico’s poetic vision is an acknowledged inspiration for this book.) Ramachandran analyzes atlases, epic poems, and natural philosophies...

... be Beckett’s own view of his writing” (p. 6) and, in addition, declares as irrelevant to the understanding of his work what he has written about the work of other writers or artists, as for instance, in his “Dante. . . Bruno. Vico. . Joyce,” his Proust, and his much-q uoted “Three Dialogues...

... (translators). The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Translated from the Third Edition (174.1). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1948. Pp. xv 4- 398. $5.00. SPANISH Berkowitz, H. Chonon. Perez Galdos, Spanish Liberal Crusader. Madison...

..., in a kind of terrain vague (vague in both its senses of vague and uncultivated) Croce places G. B. Vico, sullen, solitary, uncom- prehended (“the Setfecento is characterized by the absence of vichianism brooding upon the solemn, gigantic, premature thouglits of the Scienza Nuova. This schematic...

... and on the various analogues of Nietzsche's Dionysiac man in modern literature are among the most brilliant in the book. At one point Kern refers to herself as an "analogymongcr" (p. 189). Beckett uses the word rather pejoratively on the second page of his "Dante Bruno. Vico Joyce": "Must we wring...

..., but only Erasmus, Luther, Castiglione, and Montaigne are treated in much detail. It is surprising, in a book that contrib- utes so importantly to our knowledge of the origins of historicism, to find no reference to Vico and only one passing notice of Herder. The emphasis seems to be choice...