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The contribution investigates two particular aspects of the multifaceted and eccentric figure of Ferdinando Galiani, namely the right to laziness that he celebrated against the boredom of "modern philosophizing" that was rampant in the intellectual circles of Naples, and the curiosity, understood as a drive whose development and satisfaction are consummated in the adventure of "pleasant reasoning" and "disinterested philosophizing". Galiani's response and cultural proposal to the arrogance of the late antiquarian of the Neapolitan Studio and salons are a real anthropological examination of the world, whose terms of comparison - although most of the time appear hidden in sarcasm, in the sweetness of indolence, and in the lightness of verbal expression and witty motto - they preserve a rigorous approach and a lucidity of socio-political analysis that are absolutely uncommon. The report highlights how between the libertine Galiani and the Century of Enlightenment, with all its cultural expressions and with its many contradictions, there is still an underlying bond, because the abbot's intellectual paths are by no means alien. to the main elaborations of the eighteenth century, despite the personal declination of free thought allows Galiani to form a very personal idea of the man-nature-history relationship, and therefore to enter into open controversy against the metaphysical restructuring of the historical-political and cultural processes desired from the "masters". At the end of her report, the Author sheds light on the complex relationship that Croce and Nicolini - whose meeting and intellectual partnership took place, as it happens, thanks to the Galiani papers that were in the possession of the Nicolini family - had with this eccentric figure of abbot.