The Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia &amp; G.B. Vico

Pinton, Giorgio A.

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“…Assuming that the authorities wanted the rebel leaders portrayed in the traditional way, they appear in his report as ambitious, cunning, and conspicuously ungrateful to the viceroy they had planned to assassinate. As for their motive, Vico explained, 'They say it was for profound avidity that the conspirators shamefully sold the peace of the fatherland to the Germans' (Vico, 2013(Vico, [c.1704). The professor also asserted that Giuseppe Capece, one of the main schemers, had apparently been born to infamy ( facinus; ibid.…”

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“…Vico also included in his report how Grimani had handled every detail of the plot and preparations to transfer the kingdom to the House of Austria (Vico, 2013(Vico, [c.1704). He revealed how the scheme specifically anticipated that the cardinal 'should cover the function of Viceroy' once the city had been taken, 'until Charles would be able to come ' (ibid.…”

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“…4 This same Grimani now presided over the 1708 inaugural address as the all-powerful Austrian viceroy. In his report four years earlier, Vico had used the word coniurationis and its derivatives nearly 50 times in the most straightforward sense of 'insidious machination[s]' (Vico, 2013(Vico, [c.1704). Why would he now risk using the related word conspirare?…”

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“…In describing the contradicting interests and social divisions of Naples, Vico extolled the importance of the people in defeating the rebels. In doing so, he inevitably downgraded the heroic role of the municipal authorities and the nobles who remained loyal to Philip V (Vico, 2013(Vico, [c.1704). His professional loyalty as a historian must have annoyed those who commissioned the work, the Bourbon viceroyalty authorities, which are believed to have rejected its publication in the end.…”

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“…In seeking answers for this first set of questions, the oration should be approached in connection with Vico's first major work, Coniuratio principum Neapolitanorum (The Conspiracy of the Neapolitan Princes, also known as The Conspiracy of Macchia; Vico, 2013Vico, [c.1704), written a few years earlier, and the intense debates concerning university reform in Naples. In Vico's analogy, the sciences themselves ('all arts and disciplines') are the subjects being 'sundered apart' and 'scattered'.…”

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Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

Alonso-Rocafort

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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On 18 October 1708, Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) gave his seventh inaugural oration, De nostri temporis studiorum ratione (De ratione) at the University of Naples. There, he used the term conspirare to propose collaboration among the sciences. An initial study of the historical context, specifically the scholar’s involvement with the Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia (1701) and the debates on university reform, makes it possible to formulate a hypothesis regarding Vico’s intent and word choice that enriches our understanding of the preserved text. On a personal level, the Neapolitan professor was looking for a modicum of protection from the new authorities, especially the recently named viceroy in audience that day, Cardinal Vicenzo Grimani. On the political plane, along with a surreptitious argument against tyranny, Vico sought to dissuade the new governors from subscribing to the divisive approach embodied in the university policy of the Cartesian and Bourbonic reformers. Direct analysis of the text of De ratione enabled theoretical scrutiny of the frame from which Vico called for more than mere encyclopaedic knowledge. He was setting forth a vision for a conspiratorial project among the sciences based on a broad understanding of rhetoric. His original proposal for inter- and trans-disciplinarity can inform current debates on the same topic.

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Alonso-Rocafort

2023

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A Distant Council, Nearby Problems. The Duke of Medinaceli, Naples, and the Unity of the Spanish Monarchy, 1696-1702 = Consejo lejano, problemas cercanos. El duque de Medinaceli, Nápoles y la unidad de la Monarquía Hispánica, 1696-1702

Marcos

2018

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This paper analyzes the role of the duke of Medinaceli in face of the Spanish succession crisis. By rejecting historiographical attempts to include the duke within one or other dynastic party, the essay emphasizes instead his total loyalty to the united Spanish Monarchy. By doing so, the defense of the unity of the Monarchy attempted by Medinaceli is understood not only in a territorial viewpoint but as a safeguard of a distinctive political model: the so-called ‘aristomanzia’. Thanks to it, Spanish nobility had been traditionally able to control the King by way of the Council of State and the consensus of the Grandees, a practice threatened at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century and defended, but without success, by Medinaceli.This paper analyzes the role of the Duke of Medinaceli in the face of the Spanish succession crisis. By rejecting historiographical attempts to include the duke within a dynastic party, the essay emphasizes the idea of his loyalty to the Spanish Monarchy. In this way the defense of the unity of the Monarchy undertaken by Medinaceli is understood not only in a territorial viewpoint but as a pragmatic safeguard of a political model: the so-called ‘aristomanzia’. Thanks to it, the Spanish nobility had been traditionally able to control the King by way of the Council of State and the consensus of the Grandees, a practice that languished at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century and defended with no success by Medinaceli.

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The Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia & G.B. Vico

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Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

A Distant Council, Nearby Problems. The Duke of Medinaceli, Naples, and the Unity of the Spanish Monarchy, 1696-1702 = Consejo lejano, problemas cercanos. El duque de Medinaceli, Nápoles y la unidad de la Monarquía Hispánica, 1696-1702

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