Giorgio Tagliacozzo, Giambettista Vico, an international symposium, 1969

HISTORY OF LEGAL THOUGHT 347 called Vico’s “ systematicity” ), the general theory o f law, and jural science, are “ a Venseigne de Vico.” And so, in a way, are the discerning explorations o f Bobbio in the domain o f juridical positivism (Vico’s certum). Even the recently manifested turn toward modern American realism, documented by a couple o f excellently crafted Italian monographs, is a sign o f the continuing vitality, in Italy’s jusphilosophical thought, o f Vico’s interest in the “ art of applying law to facts.” The problems o f juridical experience (again, the certum, conceived in the complete expansion o f its range) are skillfully analyzed by Capograssi, Renato Treves, and Pietro Piovani. In legal history, Vico’s influence seems to be less vigorous,77 but one perceives Vichianism at work in the attempts o f Giuliana d’Amelio, Opocher, Mosco, and Cassandro to unravel the coils and straighten the tangles o f the difficult problems con­ nected with legal historiography, while the resumption of interest in juridical sociology, attested to by the researches o f Franco Leonardi and Giuseppina Nirchio, are clearly oriented along Vichian directives.78 77 G. Graneris, “ II diritto vero e il diritto certo,” Rivista difilosofia neoscolastica, 1945, pp. 244 ff. 78 For this trend see R . Treves, “ La sociologia giuridica in Italia e i suoi possibili sviluppi,” Quaderni di sociologia, no. 3 (1962): 10 ; and Franco Leonardi, “ Sociologia giuridica e teoria generale del diritto,” Rivista interuazionale di filosofia del diritto, 1951, pp. 724-52; Giuseppina Nirchio, Introduzione alia sociologia giuridica (Palermo, 1957); see also the substantial treatment o f this topic by B. Bruni Roccia, entitled “ Sociologia e scienza comparata del diritto,” Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile, 16 (1962): 260-79.

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