Word: neapolitans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were the kin of men who had been executed by German firing squads, or shot on sight for being on the streets after curfew. They sought out Neapolitan Fascists to lynch them. Yelling girls ran with them. Older women gaped from doorways at the corpses of neighbors lying in gutters, screeched and waved their hands, ducked out of sight when German bombers roared overhead...
Wilson finds the starting point of socialist historical thinking in a little-known book-Principles of a New Science Dealing with the Nature of Nations, Through Which Are Shown Also New Principles of the Natural Law of Peoples. The author was an obscure, cranky, 18th-Century Neapolitan, Giovanni Battista Vico. Vico had read Francis Bacon. He decided that it was possible to apply to the study of human history the scientific methods Bacon applied to nature. Hitherto history had been written in terms of the lives of great men, as a chronicle of unusual events, as a show directed...