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Index
Preface
Bibliographical Note
Abbreviations and Signs
Introduction
PRINCIPLES OF NEW SCIENCE OF GIAMBATTISTA VICO CONCERNING THE COMMON NATURE OF THE NATIONS
IDEA OF THE WORK
Frontispiece
Explanation of the Picture Placed as Frontispiece to Serve as Introduction to the Work
BOOK ONE: ESTABLISHMENT OF PRINCIPLES
Chronological Table
Section I. Notes on the Chronological Table, in Which the Materials Are Set in Order
Section II. Elements
Section III. Principles
Section IV. Method
BOOK TWO: POETIC WISDOM
Prolegomena
Introduction
Chapter I. Wisdom in General
Chapter II. Exposition and Division of Poetic Wisdom
Chapter III. The Universal Flood and the Giants
Section I. Poetic Metaphysics
Chapter I. Poetic Metaphysics as the Origin of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices
Chapter II. Corollaries concerning the Principal Aspects of This Science
Section II. Poetic Logic
Chapter I. Poetic Logic
Chapter II. Corollaries concerning Poetic Tropes, Monsters and Metamorphoses
Chapter III. Corollaries concerning Speech by Poetic Characters among the First Nations
Chapter IV. Corollaries concerning the Origins of Languages and Letters; and, Therein, the Origins of Hieroglyphics, Laws, Names, Family Arms, Medals, and Money; and Hence of the First Language and Literature of the Natural Law of the Gentes
Chapter V. Corollaries concerning the Origins of Poetic Style, Digression, Inversion, Rhythm, Song, and Verse
Chapter VI. The Other Corollaries Announced at the Beginning [of Chapter IV]
Chapter VII. Final Corollaries concerning the Logic of the Learned
Section III. Poetic Morals
Chapter I. Poetic Morals and the Origins of the Vulgar Virtues Taught by Religion through the Institution of Matrimony
Section IV. Poetic Economy
Chapter I. Of Poetic Economy, and Here of the Families Which at First Included Only Children [and Not Famuli]
Chapter II. The Families with Their Famuli, Which Preceded the Cities, and without Which the Cities Could Not Have Been Born
Chapter III. Corollaries concerning Contracts Sealed by Simple Consent
Chapter IV. Mythological Canon
Section V. Poetic Politics
Chapter I. Poetic Politics, under Which the First Commonwealths in the World Were Born in a Most Severely Aristocratic Form
Chapter II. All Commonwealths Are Born from Certain Eternal Principles of Fiefs
Chapter III. The Origins of the Census and the Treasury
Chapter IV. The Origins of the Roman Assemblies
Chapter V. Corollary: It Is Divine Providence That Institutes Commonwealths and at the Same Time the Natural Law of the Gentes
Chapter VI. Heroic Politics Resumed
Chapter VII. Corollaries concerning Ancient Roman Institutions, and in Particular the Supposedly Monarchic Kingship at Rome and the Supposedly Popular Liberty Instituted by Junius Brutus
Chapter VIII. Corollary concerning the Heroism of the First Peoples
Section VI
Chapter I. Epitomes of Poetic History
Section VII. Poetic Physics
Chapter I. Poetic Physics
Chapter II. Poetic Physics concerning Man, or Heroic Nature
Chapter III. Corollary on Heroic Sentences
Chapter IV. Corollary on Heroic Descriptions
Chapter V. Corollary on Heroic Customs
Section VIII
Chapter I. Poetic Cosmography
Section IX. Poetic Astronomy
Chapter I. Poetic Astronomy
Chapter II. Astronomical and Physico-philological Demonstration of the Uniformity of the Principles [of Astronomy] among All Ancient Gentile Nations
Section X. Poetic Chronology
Chapter I. Poetic Chronology
Chapter II. Chronological Canon for Determining the Beginnings of Universal History, Which Must Precede the Monarchy of Ninus, with Which It [Commonly] Starts
Section XI. Poetic Geography
Chapter I. Poetic Geography
Chapter II. Corollary on the Coming of Aeneas into Italy
Chapter III. The Denomination and Description of the Heroic Cities
Conclusion
BOOK THREE: DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMER
Section I. Search for the True Homer
Introduction
Chapter I. The Esoteric Wisdom Attributed to Homer
Chapter II. Homer’s Fatherland
Chapter III. The Age of Homer
Chapter IV. Homer’s Matchless Faculty for Heroic Poetry
Chapter V. Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer
Chapter VI. Philological Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer
Section II. Discovery of the True Homer
Introduction
Chapter I. The Improprieties and Improbabilities of the Homer Hitherto Believed in Become Proper and Necessary in the Homer Herein Discovered
Chapter II. The Poems of Homer Revealed as Two Great Treasure Stores of the Natural Law of the Gentes of Greece
Appendix. Rational History of the Dramatic and Lyric Poets
BOOK FOUR: THE COURSE THE NATIONS RUN
Introduction
Section I. Three Kinds of Natures
Section II. Three Kinds of Customs
Section III. Three Kinds of Natural Law
Section IV. Three Kinds of Governments
Section V. Three Kinds of Languages
Section VI. Three Kinds of Characters
Section VII. Three Kinds of Jurisprudence
Section VIII. Three Kinds of Authority
Section IX. Three Kinds of Reason
Chapter I. Divine Reason and Reason of State
Chapter II. Corollary on the Political Wisdom of the Ancient Romans
Chapter III. Corollary: Fundamental History of Roman Law
Section X. Three Kinds of Judgments
Chapter I. First Kind: Divine Judgments
Chapter II. Corollary on Duels and Reprisals
Chapter III. Second Kind: Ordinary Judgments
Chapter IV. Third Kind: Human Judgments
Section XI. Three Sects of Times
Chapter I. Sects of Religious, Punctilious, and Civil Times
Section XII. Other Proofs Drawn from the Properties of the Heroic Aristocracies
Introduction
Chapter I. The Guarding of the Confines
Chapter II. The Guarding of the Institutions
Chapter III. The Guarding of the Laws
Section XIII
Chapter I. Other Proofs Taken from [Mixed Commonwealths, that is from] the Tempering of the Constitution of a Succeeding Commonwealth by the Administration of the Preceding One
Chapter II. An Eternal Natural Royal Law by Which the Nations Come to Rest under Monarchies
Chapter III. Refutation of the Principles of Political Theory as Represented by the System of Jean Bodin
Section XIV. Final Proofs to Confirm the Course of Nations
Chapter I. Punishments, Wars, Order of Numbers
Chapter II. Corollary: That the Ancient Roman Law Was a Serious Poem, and the Ancient Jurisprudence a Severe Kind of Poetry, within Which Are Found the First Outlines of Legal Metaphysics in the Rough; and How, among the Greeks, Philosophy Was Born of the Laws
BOOK FIVE: THE RECOURSE OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS WHICH THE NATIONS TAKE WHEN THEY RISE AGAIN
Introduction
Chapter I. The Latest Barbaric History Explained as the Recourse of the First Barbaric History
Chapter II. The Recourse the Nations Take over the Eternal Nature of Fiefs, and the Recourse Thence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law
Chapter III. Survey of the Ancient and the Modern World of Nations in the Light of the Principles of this Science
CONCLUSION OF THE WORK
On an Eternal Natural Commonwealth, in Each Kind Best, Ordained by Divine Providence
APPENDIX
Practic of the New Science
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