Vico tra due stagioni costituzionali

The aim of this paper is to outline the cultural movements and the normative politics in the Neapolitan kingdom during the life of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744). It was a period marked by the development of a new jurisprudence, not limited to the opposition between a conservative juridical class and the enlightenments. However cultural confrontations and important reforms, such as the conflict between tax administration and feudal society, show the ability of that leadership to find original solution to the knot of social, economic, juridical, political problems that looms in the history of Southern Italy a relevant constitutional switch.