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Naples, Felice Mosca, 1709-1712. . First editions; four works in one volume, 12mo, (15.5 x 9.5 cm); small woodcut device to titles, woodcut headpieces and initials, some leaves browned, scattered light foxing; later quarter brown morocco, gilt lettering to spine, raised bands, some wear to boards and extremities, corners slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, overall a good firm copy; 126, [2]; 130, [2]; 48; 93, [3]pp. An exceedingly scarce Vico sammelband, comprising four first edition works.De nostri temporis studiorum ratione, or 'On the Study Method of Our Times', is an oration comparing classical political-philosophical thought with the modernists, especially modern jurisprudence, drawing attention to what the two can learn from each other. It is described by Healey as 'perhaps the most brilliant defence of the humanities ever written' (p294) and is rich with Vico's reflections about educative methods. Notably, this volume includes Vico's first major publication, Liber Primus Metaphysicus, which… Leer más

Naples: Felicis Mosca,, 1710. Contains the first printing of the aphorism "verum esse ipsum factum" A superb Vico nonce collection, comprising four early works, each in first edition and exceedingly rare. Liber Primus Metaphysicus, Vico's first major publication, is bound with his two important Replies to the Giornale dei letterati d'Italia (1711 and 1712), and De nostri temporis (1709), "perhaps the most brilliant defense of the humanities ever written" (Healey, p. 293). Liber Primus Metaphysicus contains Vico's fullest statement of the verum factum principle ("the true is precisely what is made"). It is the first book in the unrealised series of three outlining his anti-Cartesian philosophical system, and the 1710 edition is rare. It "remained virtually unknown for over a hundred years, although during Vico's lifetime it was widely read in Neapolitan academic circles" (Palmer, p. x). It was not translated from Latin into Italian until 1816, and it was only reprinted in 1828. The second and third… Leer más