Vico e lo storicismo tedesco

[Vico and the German Historism]. The paper investigates the reception of Vico’s thinking in German Historicism, starting from a historical survey of the early diffusion of his work in 19th Century Germany. In his German 20th Century historicist-minded and much more accurate readers, such as Troeltsch, Auerbach, Meinecke and L with, the assessment of Vico’s Historicism revolves around the two pivotal notions of individuality and development, held as distinctive of a historicist approach. The paper further proposes a renewed assessment of the major convergences and divergencies between Vico’s and the historicist approach to history.