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Winspeare (Portici). Filosofo. Essential Italian philosopher. “My Italian friends do not consider me Italian, though!” Winspeare’s ancestors are from Yorkshire in a bad time. Henry VIII. “So the king’s option was clear: either your head off or move to Capri. I chose the second.” Opere: “Delle confessioni spontanee de' rei” (Stamp. Simoniana, Napoli); “Storia degli abusi feudali” (Tip. Trani, Napoli); “Voti de' napolitani” (Napoli); “La voce di Napodano, ossia Quarta illustrazione del patto di Capuana e Nido” (Tip. Trani, Napoli); “I libri delle ‘Leggi’ di Cicerone volgarizzati” (Trani, Napoli); “Delle chiese ricettizie del Regno” (Trani, Napoli); “Filosofia” (Trani, Napoli); “Dissertazioni legali” (Agrelli, Napoli); “La colonia perpetua ed i diritti feudali aboliti” (Pesole, Napoli). Grice: “Hailing remotely from the Catholic North Riding of Yorkshire and settling in the most beautiful coastline in the world, Winspeare knew all you need to know about Cudworth, and what he calls ‘percezione.’ I would call him an Oxonian.” Grice: “My favourite Winspeare is his ‘dictionary’: obviously he found Italian furrin enough to want to organize things in a sort of thesaurum. Speranza, on the other hand, likes Winspeare’s idea of ‘volgarizzazione’ of Cicero’s ‘De Legibus.’ – one of the most boring tracts in legalese, but then at Naples at the time, you HAD to be a lawyer!” -- Refs.: H. P. Grice, “Winspeare, Speranza, Napoli, and me!”The Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135c, The Bancroft. Luigi Speranza, “Grice e Winspeare,” The Swimming-Pool Library, Villa Speranza, Liguria.