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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XII , n° 2, Dicembre 1994 ( Contributi ) pag. 1-13
GIAMBATTISTA VICO AND THE BARBARISM
OF CARTESIAN MODERNITY
SILVIA RUFFO-FIORE
University of South Florida,
Tampa, Florida
To sum up, from all that we have set forth in this work, it is to be finally concluded that this Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.
(New Science, 1106)

At the end of his New Science Giambattista Vico prophetically envisions the predictable end of the Third Age, the Age of Men, the Age of Reflection. He paints a metaphorical scenario of what will occur when the barbarism of reflection, the conceit of nations, and the conceit of scholars converge and are together played out to their inevitable conclusion. In the collapsed and dissolute state of existence civil disorder and rotting social disease reign. Men bound by factionalism and gridlock bristle and lash out unable to agree on a monarch from
within nor are they conquered by better nations from without. [...]
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