Did you know that Giambattista Vico was the first to realize that myths aren’t just fables, but a structured “mental language” with its own specific time order and history?

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Donald Phillip Verene argues that Vico’s work represents the "first great work of modern society," providing a science of the civil world as a complement to Galileo’s science of the natural world.

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Did you know that one of #Borges greatest "collaborators" was an obscure 18th-century Neapolitan philosopher?

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“In Borges’s literary guise, Vico appears anew. We find Vico, to use his own terms, as a ‘poetic character’ or ‘imaginative universal.’”

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“To mull their punch and brew they tay / With wather parted from the say.”

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At 7, Vico fell off a ladder in his family’s mud-floored bookstore, cracking his skull so badly doctors predicted "death or imbecility."
He survived, but emerged stern and melancholy. His take? It wasn't a flaw; it was the mark of a "profound and active spirit."

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