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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications TEMPORALITIES AND FRACTURES IN POST -NAPOLEONIC ITALY : LEOPARDI AND VICO ’S LEGACY by Martina Piperno A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies University of Warwick, School of Modern Languages and Cultures March 2016 TEMPORALITIES AND FRACTURES IN POST -NAPOLEONIC ITALY : LEOPARDI AND VICO ’S LEGACY TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ………………………………………………...... p. 4 Declaration …………………………………………………………... p. 5 Abstract ……………………………………………………………… p. 6 Abbreviations ………………………………………………………... p. 7 INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………. p. 8 1. The Main Research Questions. Vico’s Legacy, Vico’s ‘Heir’…………… p. 8 2. Existing Scholarship and Its Gaps………………………………………... p. 11 3. Diffraction as a Methodological Framework……………………………... p. 18 4. Diffractive Mapping. Organization of the Material in this Work………… p. 29 Chapter 1. FROM NAPLES TO VENICE AND LOMBARDY The Oblique Paths of Vico’s Interpretation(s) (1708-1815) ……… p. 35 1. 1 – Naples 1708: An Italian Response to the ‘Querelle Des Anciens et des Modernes’……………………………………..………………………… p. 36 1. 2 – Venice 1763: Translating and Mediating the Ancient World……….. p. 48 1. 3 – Vico in Lombardy (1800-1815): Post-Revolutionary ‘Vichismo’ and the Revision of Italian Identity……………………………………………… p.