Giambattista Vico
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Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment. He criticized the expansion and development of modern rationalism, finding Cartesian
Giambattista Vico
"In this little room Giambattista Vico was born on June 23 1668. Here he resided until he was seventeen years old, and in the subdued little workshop of his bookseller father he used to spend the nights in his study. Youthful eve of his sublime work. The city of Naples poses." Tombstone in the house where he was born in Via San Biagio dei Librai.
Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne
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Isaiah Berlin
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Sir Isaiah Berlin was a British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.
Giambattista Vico
…narrated philosophically." Although he was not an historicist, contemporary interest in Vico usually has been motivated by historicists, such as Isaiah Berlin, a philosopher and historian of ideas, and Hayden White, a metahistorian. Vico's intellectual magnum opus is the book Scienza Nuova or New Science…
Berlin in 1983
Plaque marking what was once Berlin's childhood home (designed by Mikhail Eisenstein) in Riga, engraved in Latvian, English, and Hebrew with the tribute "The British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin lived in this house 1909–1915"
The Angliyskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, where Berlin lived as a child during the Russian Revolutions
English Heritage blue plaque at 33 Upper Addison Gardens, Holland Park, London