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Giuseppe Giarrizzo
Giuseppe Giarrizzo (8 November 1927 - 28 November 2015) was an Italian historian and academic. He was professor emeritus at the University of Catania. Life and career Born in Riposto, the son of a sea captain, Giarrizzo studied letters under Santo Mazzarino at the University of Catania, graduating in 1949. In 1950 he won a fellowship at the Benedetto Croce's Italian Institute for Historical Studies, where under the guidance of Federico Chabod he authored his first essay, ''Edward Gibbon: His View of Life and Conception of History''.Girolamo Imbruglia (2020).Giarrizzo, Giuseppe. ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani''. Treccani. Between 1951 and 1954 he collaborated with Enciclopedia Italiana, writing entries related to the history of Christianity and to the English history. He then left this commitment as a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship led him to do academic trips in England, France and Holland. After having served as a lecturer for several years, in 1964 he became or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riposto
Riposto ( scn, Ripostu) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Catania area of southern Italy. The small seafront town is located about southeast of Palermo and about north of Catania. History Riposto is both historically and literally connected to Mascali, a once fiefdom of which it had been apart of as its commercial port in the 16th century and until it had finally gained local autonomy from in the 18th century. In the early 19th century, the town would be administratively merged with Giarre and become Giarre-Riposto by Fascist Italy. It was not until 1945 would the two towns be administratively divided once again, following the end of World War II. Geography The town is located on the Ionian Coast, and borders with the municipalities of Acireale, Giarre and Mascali. Its '' frazioni'' are Altarello, Archi, Carruba, Praiola, Quartirello and Torre Archirafi. People *Franco Battiato (1945–2021), singer-songwriter *Federico Cafiero (1914–1980), mathematician See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hume
David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) Cranston, Maurice, and Thomas Edmund Jessop. 2020 999br>David Hume" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved 18 May 2020. was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with '' A Treatise of Human Nature'' (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as an Empiricist. Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
