This is Vico's presentation of his New Science of 1744. He called this summary "idea of the work" and decided to illustrate this idea of the entire volume with a figure or emblem that in Italian he called it Dipintura. This dipintura was placed as the frontispiece of the New Science, in its third edition. Most of the time the readers of the book jump to the first chapter of the first part of the book and disregard introduction or notices given after the table of content. We decided therefore to combine the figure with the text of this summary or idea of the complete book in the same...