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Horst Steinke

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cause the Romans alone […] had the opportunity to recognize the many prin-

ciples and customs that were shared throughout Europe and the Near East».

A complete translation of

Diritto universale

has also been published in «NVS»,

21, 2003; 23, 2005 and 24, 2006.

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According to A. C. ’t Hart «il diritto, il modo in cui gli uomini concepi-

scono la giustizia (law, the vehicle by means of which humans implement

justice)» (Id.,

La metodologia giuridica vichiana

, in «BCSV», XII-XIII, 1982-1983,

pp. 5-28, p. 6). We would be remiss in not quoting in this connection P. Pio-

vani: «la

giuridicità

è la premessa di ogni

policità

e

socialità,

ed è aspetto che non

va mai dimenticato (the

rule of law

is the condition of possibility of all

social

and

political

values, and is the feature that is never ignored)» (quoted in R. Ruggie-

ro,

Il sistema delle leggi e la finzione poetica nel Diritto Universale

, in

Giambattista Vico

e l’enciclopedia dei saperi

,

ed. by A. Battistini and P. Guaragnella,

Lecce, Pensa

MultiMedia, 2007, pp. 181-205, pp. 204-205; italics original).

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This follows G. Fassò, who wrote: «[T]he original impulse which led Vi-

co to the conceptualization of his definitive philosophy was not an interest in

the problem of history. He came to the problem of history while meditating

on another problem, which provided him […] with the key with which to

then penetrate the larger problem of history; this original problem was that of

law» (Id.,

The Problem of Law and the Historical Origin of the New Science

, trans. by

M. Brose, in

Giambattista Vico’s Science of Humanity

, cit., pp. 3-14 p. 9). See also

E. Nuzzo’s comment on Fassò who, among others, «hanno sottolineato la

centralità e crucialità nella meditazione di Vico del confronto con le proble-

matiche giuridiche (has underlined the central and crucial role that coming to

grips with the issues pertaining to law played in Vico’s reflections)» (Id.,

I ca-

ratteri dei popoli nella nuova scienza delle nazioni di Vico. Tra causalità sacra, causalità

storica, causalità naturale

, in

Razionalità e modernità in Vico,

cit., pp. 128-178, p.

137, footnote 13).

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Italics in the original; M. A. Pastor Pérez,

Vico o la Metafísica como Método

de Fundamentación de la Naturaleza Humana

, in «CsV

»

, 2, 1992, pp. 193-206, p.

203. See also A. R. Caponigri,

Time and Idea,

cit., p. 116: «[W]hat is true in the

area of law, is true also […] in the whole process of culture». We will return to

this subject in the discussion below on Books II and IV.

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In Vico’s biography, his intellectual interest in law and legal studies,

(“jurisprudence” understood as an encompassing term), go all the way back to

his youth. See L. R. Vedovato,

O Jus Cogens do direito internacional sob a luz do pen-

samento de Giambattista Vico. Um novo olhar para o direito natural

, in

Razionalità e

modernità in Vico

, cit., pp. 307-316, p. 311.

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An indispensable work in approaching

Dirittto universale

is R. Ruggiero,

Nova Scientia Tentatur. Introduzione al

Diritto Universale

di Giambattista Vico,