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€ 800 - 1.000
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At auction on Thursday 21 November 2024 at 10:30
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Naples, Stamperia Muziana, 1744. In 4°. Two parts (each with its own title page) in one volume. With the portrait of the Author, an allegorical frontispiece and a chronological table folded several times outside the text, all finely engraved in copper. Allegorical vignette on the first title page and frieze on the second. Eighteenth-century parchment binding. Spine with title and author on a red tag.
Specialist Notes
Third and definitive edition of Vico's masterpiece, considered "the means by which the concept of historical development finally entered Western European thought" (PMM 184, for the first edition of 1725). The Author published a second version of the work in 1730, but already in 1736 he began drafting a new, revised and expanded edition, on which he worked until the last night of his life, in January 1744, continuing to revise the drafts; the work was published posthumously. The beautiful allegorical frontispiece designed by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro and engraved in copper by Francesco Sesoni, which had already appeared in the second edition, is commented in detail in the initial chapter Explanation of the painting proposed on the frontispiece; which serves as the Introduction to the work. The volume also boasts a portrait of Vico also engraved by Sesoni and a chronological table.
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