Vico, Giovanni Battista, Italian philosopher, born at Naples, where he was for 40 years professor of rhetoric; his great work “Scienza Nuova,” by which he became the father of the philosophy of history, which he resolved Calvinistically into a spiritual development of the purpose of God (1668‒1744).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Vicksburg * Victor, Claude Perrin