Giambattista Vico held public office at a time when the terms of that office were themselves being contested.
The record lists Giambattista Vico as Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist.
Giambattista Vico was born at Naples in 1668. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Naples. He was educated at University of Naples Federico II.
The seventeenth century set the modern argument in motion: sovereignty, consent and the limits of a ruler's claim.
He is described as philosopher, sociologist and historian.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
That the career was made in Kingdom of Naples is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Giambattista Vico died in 1744, aged 76. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- Educated at University of Naples Federico II
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