The new science of Giambattista Vico (1984 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. 'This translation is agilely faithful to Vico’s idiosyncratic prose and while prior translations provide scant resources to aid the reader, this one contains copious annotations as well as a magisterial introduction.'-Stuart D. Principi di una scienza nuova by Giambattista Vico, 1984, Cornell University Press edition, in English - Rev. Vico’s Scienza nuova (1725 The New Science ), the most enduring work produced by this group, found tepid reception in its own day, and the author’s ideas on a universal philosophy of history won wide acceptance among Enlightenment thinkers only in the 1770s. Giambattista Vicos New Science (which is in fact a loopy theory of the history of literature) has proved to be a great flintstone. He can now be understood and recognized as indispensably key to the perennial future of the humanities.'-William Franke, author of The Revelation of Imagination An essay written in Italy in the 1720s to 1740s revised and published in Italian (as Principi di Scienza Nuova di Giambattista Vico dIntorno alla Comune. 'Finally, the barrier posed by Vico’s formidably difficult baroque prose is overcome. It is philologically faithful, philosophically competent, and eminently readable.'-Vittorio Hosle, author of Vico’s New Science of the Intersubjective World 'This third translation of the main work of Italian philosophy into English presents important advantages with regard to the earlier ones. “The footnotes acquaint the Anglophone reader with perhaps the very best of contemporary Vico scholars.”-Nancy Struever, Johns Hopkins University

'This translation is more consistent in its terminology, is more faithful to the textual features of the 1744 text, and provides significantly greater (and clearer) annotation than previous translations.'-Charles Sullivan, University of Dallas

New Science by Giambattista Vico