Vico


Also found in: Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to Vico: Vicodin, Vivo

Vico

(ˈvɪkəʊ; Italian ˈviːko)
n
(Biography) Giovanni Battista (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista). 1668–1744, Italian philosopher. In Scienza Nuova (1721) he postulated that civilizations rise and fall in evolutionary cycles, making use of myths, poetry, and linguistics as historical evidence
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Vi•co

(ˈvɪk oʊ, ˈvi koʊ)

n.
Giovanni Battista, 1668–1744, Italian philosopher and jurist.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in classic literature ?
I have a lodging in the Rue Jean-Pain-Mollet, in vico Johannis Pain-Mollet .
twitter.com/IA6OpEYc6M Vico Sotto (@VicoSotto) August 25, 2019 In an interview with economist and television show host Solita "Winnie" Monsod last week, Sotto said he had no girlfriend since birth but he was accepting "applicants.
LOOK: Manila City Mayor Francisco 'Isko Moreno' Domagoso poses for a photo with Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto after the MVP Superhero Fun Run.
Meanwhile, the 65-year-old actress requested Vico's constituent to stop calling the latter "Mayor Bae" or "Babe Mayor."
Se a Providencia--como lemos na Scienza nuova--"[...] e a rainha dos afazeres humanos" (Vico, 1992, [section] 312), podemos supor que, soberana, deve governar de cima, do seu trono, os negocios humanos e plasmar, servindo-se deles, os seus sublimes designios que, embora transcendentes, nao sao de todo misteriosos para os crentes na Revelacao.
To properly understand the role of, say, Vico's philosophy of history or Giordano Bruno's coincidence of contraries in Joyce's work, the critic's engagement with philosophy must match Joyce's own.
Chapter 1, "Vico, Spinoza, and the Imperial Past," introduces Vico to the reader as a purveyor of almost occult knowledge.
Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, este escrito se ocupa de la poetica en Vico y de su eventual autonomia.
In the foreward to Paul Brienza's path breaking book on Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), Guiseppe Mazzotta of Yale University observes that this study: "contributes a highly original and essential element to the two parallel debates on Vico and social theory: he revives the somewhat forgotten problematic of the conatus [endeavor] and reinterprets it as the key to the individual's desire for self-preservation and, therefore, to any possible constitution of an ethical/political community.
There is a very good reason why these aspects of Vico's thought are rarely discussed.
In this engagingly written book, Malcolm Bull invites us to consider a paradox: that for the Neapolitan rhetorician, historian and philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), the falsity of painting equated to--or could lead to--a kind of truth.