Giambattista Vico

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Giambattista Vico was an 18th-century Italian philosopher and historian best known for his pioneering work on the philosophy of history and the cyclical development of civilizations in his book "The New Science."

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Giovan Battista Vico 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian philosopher
historian
human
jurist
philosopher
rhetorician
ageModel age of gods
age of heroes
age of men
birthDate 1668-06-23
birthName Giambattista Vico self-linksurface differs
surface form: Giovan Battista Vico
birthPlace Kingdom of Naples
Naples
citizenship Kingdom of Naples
coreConcept corsi e ricorsi (courses and recurrences of history)
verum factum principle
deathDate 1744-01-23
deathPlace Kingdom of Naples
Naples
employer University of Naples Federico II
surface form: University of Naples
era 18th century
Early modern philosophy
familyName Vico
fieldOfWork history
jurisprudence
philosophy
rhetoric
givenName Giovanni Battista
surface form: Giambattista
historicalTheory history develops in recurring cycles of ages
influenced Benedetto Croce
Hayden White
Isaiah Berlin
James Joyce
Jürgen Habermas
Karl Marx
I. A. Richards
surface form: Northrop Frye

R. G. Collingwood
influencedBy Francis Bacon
Hugo Grotius
Plato
Stoicism
Tacitus
knownFor The New Science
philosophy of history
theory of cyclical development of civilizations
language Italian
movement Enlightenment philosophy
name Giambattista Vico self-link
nationality Italian
notableWork La Scienza Nuova
Scienza Nuova
The New Science
occupation professor
philosophicalSchool anti-Cartesianism
historicism
positionHeld professor of rhetoric at the University of Naples
publicationYearOfNotableWork 1725
religion Roman Catholicism
verumFactumPrinciple the true is precisely what is made

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Georges Sorel influencedBy Giambattista Vico
Against the Current containsEssayOn Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico name Giambattista Vico self-link
Giambattista Vico birthName Giambattista Vico self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Giovan Battista Vico
Benedetto Croce influencedBy Giambattista Vico
Vico fullName Giambattista Vico
Vico nativeName Giambattista Vico
The Myth of the State influencedBy Giambattista Vico
Finnegans Wake influencedBy Giambattista Vico
Italian idealism influencedBy Giambattista Vico
The New Science author Giambattista Vico
Scienza Nuova author Giambattista Vico
La Scienza Nuova author Giambattista Vico
R. G. Collingwood influencedBy Giambattista Vico
Hayden White influencedBy Giambattista Vico
verum factum principle formulatedBy Giambattista Vico
verum factum principle associatedWith Giambattista Vico
De nostri temporis studiorum ratione author Giambattista Vico
De antiquissima Italorum sapientia author Giambattista Vico