Volume 23, Number 18 · November 11, 1976
On the Pioneer Trail
By Arnaldo Momigliano
Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin
Viking Press, 228 pp., $12.50
There is perhaps a slight element of prejudice in the opinion, widespread among us Piedmontese, that San Gennaro and Giambattista Vico must be left to the Neapolitans. This opinion is indeed prejudiced in so far as it does not take into account that both San Gennaro and Vico have proved embarrassing to educated Neapolitans, and more especially to the descendants of those lawyers who in the eighteenth century came down from the provinces to Naples to fill high positions in the administration and who embodied the Enlightenment.
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