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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 published in English have not yet included the Institutiones Oratoriae , which more or less reflects the lectures on rhetoric given by Vico at the University of Naples, starting with the academic year 1699-1700 and going through 1739-1741. The manual on rhetoric was used in Italy up to the end of the nineteenth century and established the common curriculum in rhetoric to be followed in all Universities. This English edition offers a text of the Institutiones complete on the base of the four known extant manuscripts. It offers the marginal glosses made by Vico's students, a collection of Vico's phrases and explanations of terms collected by some of the students, a glossary of Latin words and rhetorical terms from the Latin text, and a wealth of information in the commentary. The Art of Rhetoric is the manual for everyone who wants to know what rhetoric is, how it was employed in the forum or the courts, how it could be learned from the classic orators, and how it can be used whenever we speak for convincing, praising or motivating

THE NEW SCIENCE OF GIAMBATTISTA VICO -- CONTENTS -- 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 a s 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

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