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PITHY QUOTE FROM Vico: Opere
Sed de origine nervorum a corde opinio per nostri temporis anatomen iam falsa comperta est: ii enim a cerebro tamquam a stirpe per totum corpus diffundi observantur. Quare in glandula pineali animum humanum veluti in specula Carthesiani collocant, et inde omnes corporis motus per nervos excipere, et per motus obiecta speculari opinantur. Atqui saepe homines cerebro deminuti, et vivere, et moveri, et sentire, et ratione feliciter uti observatum.
Giambattista Vico: Opere I Le Orazioni Inaugurali, Il de Italorum Sapiente, E le Polemiche, De antiquissima Italorum Sapientia, Liber Primus. Metaphysicus, CAPUT V: iii, De animi sede
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Giambattista Vico. Detail: Engraving after portrait by Francesco Solimena
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Vico, Giambattista. Opere di G.B. Vico, 8 volumes in 11, edited by Fausto Nicolini, Bari: Laterza, 1911–41. Textual note: We have included all text from the Nicolini edition authored by Vico as well as Nicolini's footnotes, but we have not included Nicolini's appendices, introductions, etc. We have begun introducing variants into the text which are marked with a dagger (†). Generally these variants are spelling differences between the Nicolini text and the original edition, but occasionally more significant variants are noted. We have not noted variant punctuation, accents, or certain modernizations. Variants are drawn from:
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