Vico and China.

How tantalizing is it, therefore, to speculate on conversations the Chinese in Naples might have had with someone who lived and worked just a short walk from the Collegio, Giambattista Vico? In addition, his portrait of the intensity of Vico's struggle with history and religion beyond Europe contributes to decentralizing the canon of the humanities. "The new hermeneutic for interpreting the origins and myths of primitive man ... serve[d] to integrate China into the providential metanarrative of Vico's I teologia civile ragionata i " (37). [Extracted from the article]