Abstract

[Genovesi as a reader of Vico: between History of the Nations and New Anthropology]. This article aims to analyse the use by Antonio Genovesi of some themes and categories taken from G. Vico’s philosophy of history, which he incorporated also through a rereading of Lucretius’ De rerum natura and discussed in the complex framework of the European philosophy of Enlightenment. This let emerge the background in which Genovesi elaborates his own theory of civil progress, based on a modern anthropology, shaping perspectives which, in Naples, represent a starting point for the subsequent intellectual development.