Il balenare del vero. Verità e storia in Giambattista Vico

This Essay deals with the relation between truth and history in Vico, pointing out the human knowledge and the concept of experience in the historical development of Mankind. In this field of inquiry, I would consider the tension between the General and the Particular, and between the Abstract and the Concrete, which is developed in Vico's thought. The problem discussed concerns both the field of the modality of human knowledge, and the field of the right and the law. It is possible to follow the genesis of the History and its revelation in the human deeds (that is the factum) and in its link with the truth of the Providence (that is the verum). The Universali fantastici and the fancy allow to find the real force of the human ingenium and with it, they allow to inquiry the historical development of the providence in his concreteness, by finding the truth in the human history.