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the relative specific interventions that he took to correct, add, and comment
in view of the qualifications of the reader, or individual receiving that specific
copy. It was like as if, before giving, Vico was creating a truly new personal-
ized gift for the receiver. We must then, like Vico, afford the fatigue of analyz-
ing in its particular elements, page after page, and line by line, from the title
page to the last one, in the company and valence of Vico, the specific identity
of the Wildenstein Exemplar (Table B).
In the following table, in locis indicates the notes at the foot of the printed
block; in calce refers to the space at the bottom of the total printed block of the
page; «in margin» points to the left or right space of the printed block of text
and footnotes. In the observations column, «direct intervention» or «dir.
interv.» means that Vico modified the text, changing an /r/ into a /v/, or adding
in the margin a /,/ and other similar modifications of punctuation and format.
«Indication» means he made a «mark» (/) or (_) in the text either specifying or
not in the margin what should be done. In Du , the interventions can be either
assumed or deduced. In Du, the number of asterisks (***) stands for the num-
ber of the footnote (3). In Du and De const. , the greek symbol (f) refers to a
comment (if the symbol f is upsidedown , it refers to a second comment. For
a third comment Vico used b).
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f