The Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia and G.B. Vico / Giorgio A. Pinton ; introduction by Paolo Fabiani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinton, Giorgio A.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series 260.

Value inquiry book series ; Philosophy, literature, and politics v. 260.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.

Vico, Giambattista.

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Other Title:

Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia and G.B. Vico

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

INTRODUCTION

THE NARRATION IN TRANSLATION: THE CONSPIRACY OF THE NEAPOLITAN PRINCES (1701)

THE NARRATOR AND THE AUTHORSHIP

HISTORY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

SEARCHING FOR TWO AUTOGRAPH ORIGINALS

HISTORY OF THE TEXT OF THE NARRATION

THE NARRATIVE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

THE NARRATIVE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE NARRATIVE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

THE NARRATIVE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

EYEWITNESSES AND THE UNCERTAINTY OF HEROISM

DON LUIZ FRANCISCO DE LA CERDA

THE PRIMARY SOURCES OF THE NARRATION

HISTORY AND CREATIVITY IN G. B. VICO

THE TREE OF THE STORY

PERSONAE AND STAGE DEVELOPMENT

THE STATE COUNCIL RECORDS

CÉSAR D’AVALOS, MARQUIS DEL VASTO

THE VICEROY AND THE OFFICIAL PROCLAMATIONS

THE MANIFESTOS: F. SPINELLI AND B. CEVA GRIMALDI

EPILOGUE

WORKS CITED

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INDEX

VIBS.

Notes:

Includes a history and critical analysis of Giambattista Vico's text and role as author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.

Contains:

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. Principum Neapolitanorum coniurationis anni MDCCI historia.

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744. Principum Neapolitanorum coniurationis anni MDCCI historia. English

ISBN:

94-012-0912-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209120 DOI