Tra sacro e potere. Verso la Scienza Nuova come teologia civile ragionata della Provvidenza divina.

The aim of the thesis is to reconstruct the relationship between sacred and power, divine and society, religion and politics in the theoretical itinerary of Giambattista Vico with special attention to the legal work known as “Diritto Universale” and to the “Scienza Nuova” in its various drafts. Relocating Vico within the broader debates of the seventeenth-eighteenth-century relating to the questioning of the political fact, of power and its foundation, an attempt has been made to look at Vico’s reflection as a critical instrument to transversally read the development of political ideas of the West that has no little to do with the problematic relationship between sacred and power, religion and politics. Therefore, with a dual historical-philological and philosophical approach, the passage was noted from a “historical theodicy” summarized in the juridical work to a “reasoned civil theology of divine Providence” in the Scienza Nuova within which the “diagnostic” force and the eccentric modernity of Vico is condensed.