5/30/2023 0 Comments New Science by Giambattista Vico![]() ![]() ![]() Principles of a New Science Concerning the Nature of the Nations, Through Which the Principles of a New System of the Natural Law of the Gentes are Retrieved does not fit very well on a book’s front cover.Ī small number of Vico connoisseurs have persistently claimed that the 1725 version of the Scienza nuova- dubbed the Scienza nuova prima by Vico himself in his Autobiography-is a more readable text, and a more illuminating guide to its author’s intentions, than the better known 1744 edition. Understandably, the editors of the series in which this serviceable translation appears (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) decided not to go with the text’s full title. Composed in 1725 but never before published in a full-length English edition, The First New Science is Leon Pompa’s translation of the first version of the master work that Vico wrote and rewrote until his death in 1744. ![]()
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