5. Vico’s Homer Makes the Greco-Roman Continuum Possible
5. Vico’s Homer Makes the Greco-Roman Continuum Possible If Vico’s program in the Scienza Nuova entails using iconography to divert pan-European discourse away from the Quarrel in order to proceed toward establishing an anti-Cartesian empirical model, what is the immediate target of his resulting new “ray”? Giuseppe Mazzotta gives this answer: “La discoverta del vero Omero” unfolds by telling about a deliberate reversal of the most… Read more