Giambattista Vico died on 23 January 1744 in Naples. He was an Italian philosopher, historian, jurist, philologist, and rhetorician. His major work, The New Science (1725), is a treatise on the cyclical nature of history and on the relationship between the human mind and the world.
Vying with Vico: A Quiz on the Life and Ideas of Giambattista Vico