Vico, Giovanni Battista. OPUSCOLI di Giovanni Battista Vico Raccolti e Pubblicati da Carlantonio de Rosa, Marchese di Villarosa. Napoli: Porcelli, 1818-1823. 1st. [917]
Four volumes bound in two books. Cloth hardcovers, gilt titles to spines. 20.5 x 14 cmes. xxiv., 328; (2 folding plates) 391; iv. 260 (4); 224 pp. Pages are clean and the books are tight. Engraved portrait of Vico as the frontispiece of Vol. I. The third and fourth volume are bound reversed in the second book. The fourth volume is dated 1823 "Apud Fratr. Fernandes Praesidibus Annuentibus. Text in Italian. Very good. Hardcover.
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), "Philosopher and historian, who held the chair of rhetoric at the University of Naples from 1699 until 1741.His intellectual boldness was not understood by his contemporaries." - The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.
