Institute for the history of philosophical and scientific thought in modern age (ISPF)

Focus

From Renaissance to Enlightenment: Cardano and Vallisneri

2003
The activities of the ISPF Milan Section center on two great projects: they are dedicated to the edition and the appreciation of the works by two of the most representative authors in the Italian philosophy and science from Renaissance to Enlightenment. Girolamo Cardano is one of the most important and questioned figure in the European Renaissance. He was engaged in a great project aimed at reforming the encyclopaedia of learning and he made a very remarkable contribution to the scientific and ...

Vico's Works, Critical Edition

2003
Pietro Piovani was the first to formulate the general project of a Critical Edition of Vico's Works in 1972, in the second number of "Bollettino del Centro di studi vichiani". His aim was to start up in a new approach to Vico's opus, focused on a remarkable multidisciplinary strain, and to get away from the ecdotical Tradition by Croce and Nicolini, combining philological and philosophical Method. Benedetto Croce started in 1904, with the first redaction of the Bibliografia vichiana, the ...

Giambattista Vico and his Works

2002
Pietro Piovani was the first to formulate the general project of a Critical Edition of Giambattista Vico's Works in 1972, in the second number of "Bollettino del Centro di studi vichiani". His aim was to start up in a new approach to Vico's opus, focused on a remarkable multidisciplinary strain, and to get away from the ecdotical Tradition by Benedetto Croce and Fausto Nicolini, combining philological and philosophical Method. Benedetto Croce started in 1904, with the first redaction of ...

Cardano Project

2002
The Progetto Cardano is an international initiative for the appreciation of the work of Girolamo Cardano (Pavia 1501 - Rome 1576). Interlinking high culture and popular science, Cardano's work extends from medicine to philosophy, from mathematics to astrology and occupies a central position in the European Renaissance. The Progetto, which is interdisciplinary, is intendend to make this work available for historical research through the production of critical editions, in both traditional ad ...