| Description |
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series ; volume 260 |
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 260.
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| Contents |
Part one. The Latin text and the translation of The conspiracy of hte Prince of macchia -- part two. The making of the narration -- part three. Authorities and documents of the narrative |
| Summary |
In September of 1701, events transpired in Naples that, through frequent retellings, became popularly known as "the conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia." Rapidly gaining fame, this apparently anonymous narrative was soon incorporated by different historians in their history of the transition years between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But who was the initial bard or narrator, the town clerk or citizen who first gave testimony of this event by creating a Latin text of the story of the Prince of Macchia? Giambattista Vico was not among the claimants to the authorship of the fabulous story that changed the future of the Kingdom of Naples. Nevertheless, four scholars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were themselves convinced, and managed to convince the intellectual world as well, that Vico, then a young teacher of rhetoric at the University of Naples, was indeed the source of this original Latin narration of this oft retold Neapolitan history. This book provides the original Latin text with a parallel translation, as well as historical context and analysis of both the text's authorship history and the account itself |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English, with Latin text and parallel English translation of The Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. |
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401209120 |
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940120912X |
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