Note su Bayle storico della filosofia nel secolo dei Lumi

The article reconstructs the influence of Bayle’s philosophical entries of his “Dictionnaire historique et critique” on Eighteenth Century’s historians. In fact, Bayle’s “Dictionnaire” is a source for all the historians of philosophy in European Eighteenth Century until Brucker, Boureau-Deslandes or the “Encyclopédie”. The article analyzes Bayle’s influence on some French texts as J. Lévesque de Burigny’s “Histoire de la philosophie payenne” (1745), G.-Ch. Le Gendre de Saint-Aubin’s “Traité de l'opinion ou Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'esprit humain” (1733), Boureau-Deslandes’ “Histoire critique de la philosophie” (1737) and abbé de Marsy’s “L'analyse raisonnée de Bayle” (1755).