Gustavo Costa reviewing the Italian edition of Vico's Institutiones Oratoriae in New Vico Studies 9 (1991), has written that Rhetoric is the mainspring of an important trend of Vichian studies which initiated at the beginning of the twentieth century and had its manifestation in John D. Schaeffer's Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990), where Schaeffer aptly noted, summing up a long exegetic tradition, Vico was imbued with rhetoric and convinced of its centrality to Western civilization. Unfortunately, the editions of Vico's works...

This book is an anthology of poems written by residents in jails and prisons in United States. Originally these poems were written by inmates for inmates, but the values of these poems are also for the free-people who decide about their life independently from the State. These poems have been written in cells of concrete and steel, by people who learned how to express their emotions perhaps for the first time. Jails and Prisons do transform men and women into men and women better than what they were before entering them. For the inmates that submerge themselves to the penance of putting their...

In September of 1701, events transpired in Naples that, through frequent retellings, became popularly known as "the conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia." Rapidly gaining fame, this apparently anonymous narrative was soon incorporated by different historians in their history of the transition years between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But who was the initial bard or narrator, the town clerk or citizen who first gave testimony of this event by creating a Latin text of the story of the Prince of Macchia? Giambattista Vico was not among the claimants to the authorship of the fabulous...

In this second volume, we will consider the copy of the De Uno sent to Minorelli in Rome. What is the peculiar characteristic of Vico's direct interventions with glosses or marginal marks and what is of readers, like Gugliemo Pepe, would be analyzed following the traditional method used in this kind of research: the definitive text of the work of a well-known philosopher. The "wonder" in this volume is that of having had the opportunity of finding out who actually was Tommaso Maria Minorelli. The reader, given the various expositions on Minorelli's life, love, and works would have its chance...

Chapter Six of this Series deals essentially with interpretation and translation.