TY - JOUR AU - Caporali, Riccardo PY - 2009/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Vico e la «temperatura»: sull’idea di Stato misto nel Diritto Universale JF - Montesquieu.it JA - Mont VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.6092/issn.2421-4124/5126 UR - https://montesquieu.unibo.it/article/view/5126 SP - 59 AB - A scholar of Vico for years, the author analyses an issue which has not been very much dealt with in secondary Vichian literature: the issue of forms of Government in Universal Right. His thesis is that, although Vico cannot be considered as a theorist of “mixed” State, in Universal Right he elaborates a complex version of the “temperature” (the “mixtura”) which is functional to the general ethical-metaphysical system of the work, a system whose aim is that of proving the founding superiority of virtue upon strength, reason upon violence. Such system will then be replaced by a more purely anthropological point of view, in the various versions of Scienza Nuova. ER -