The essay proposes the debate about the contribution given by the southern exiles to the spread of Vico’s opera in the Lombardy of the early XIX century. Through a re-reading of the assertations about this topic, with a special regard to Alessandro Manzoni’s words, the essay underlines the inconsistencies of these achievements, and evidences how these are largely spread in the early XX century Italy, when the intellectual circles of the Mezzogiorno sought, in this way, to accredit the southern primacy in the construction of the cultural identity of the new Italian state. The references to Vico’s work proposed by Vincenzo Cuoco during his stay in Milan (1800-1806) confirm how the recourse to the Neapolitan scholar was not a heritage of the previous cultural period, but rather a plan conceived in Milan with the clear purpose to create an original cultural feature on a delicate and crucial topic as the Italian nationality.

Non conoscevamo quasi il Vico : Alcune note sul significato dell'opera di Cuoco nel mondo culturale milanese di primo ottocento / D. Francesco (FILOSOFIA E SCIENZA NELL'ETÀ MODERNA). - In: Vico e la filosofia civile in Lombardia / [a cura di] G. Cherchiai. - [s.l] : Franco Angeli, 2020. - ISBN 9788835106258. - pp. 33-46

Non conoscevamo quasi il Vico : Alcune note sul significato dell'opera di Cuoco nel mondo culturale milanese di primo ottocento

D. Francesco
2020

Abstract

The essay proposes the debate about the contribution given by the southern exiles to the spread of Vico’s opera in the Lombardy of the early XIX century. Through a re-reading of the assertations about this topic, with a special regard to Alessandro Manzoni’s words, the essay underlines the inconsistencies of these achievements, and evidences how these are largely spread in the early XX century Italy, when the intellectual circles of the Mezzogiorno sought, in this way, to accredit the southern primacy in the construction of the cultural identity of the new Italian state. The references to Vico’s work proposed by Vincenzo Cuoco during his stay in Milan (1800-1806) confirm how the recourse to the Neapolitan scholar was not a heritage of the previous cultural period, but rather a plan conceived in Milan with the clear purpose to create an original cultural feature on a delicate and crucial topic as the Italian nationality.
Vico; Cuoco; Manzoni; Nationality; Risorgimento; Milan
Settore M-STO/02 - Storia Moderna
2020
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