Giambattista Vico’s Biblical Scholarship. Giants as “Translators” of the Gentile Sociability

The paper deals with the ways Giambattista Vico approaches the Baroque erudite gigantology and Biblical account of the Babylonian confusion of tongues.Focusing primarily on Vico's treatise The Constancy of Philology (second part of De constantia jurisprudentis), we set ourselves the goal to point out the line of historical development located between two major tracks of the Vichian history of nations -that of the gentiles and that of the Jews.Our study made it possible to consider the Vico's science as resulting of an interaction of various disciplinary palimpsests and discursive splinters, cut short and not written to the end -Protestant exegesis or historiosophy of the prisca sapientia among them.