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Author Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937-

Title The new art of autobiography : an essay on the Life of Giambattista Vico, written by himself / Donald Phillip Verene
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations
Summary A study of Vico's autobiography, this volume places the work within the development of the genre. The author argues that Vico made the telling of his own life an application of his philosophy on human history and considers it in relation to Augustine's "Confessions" and Descartes' "Discourse."
Analysis Early, medieval and scholastic Western philosophy c 500 to c 1625
16th to 18th century literary studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-251) and index
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Subject Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. Autobiografia
Philosophers -- Italy -- Biography
Autobiography.
Autobiographies as Topic
autobiography (genre)
Autobiography.
Philosophers.
Autobiografieën.
Italy.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191679810
019167981X