Italian philosopher and scholar Giambattista Vico was born in Naples on June 23, 1668. He attended Jesuit schools and the University of Naples, where he was later the professor of rhetoric. The New Science, his work on the relationship between theoretic ideals and social realities included Establishment of Principles, Poetic Wisdom, Discovery of the True Homer, The Course of Nations, and the Recurrence of Things in the Resurgence of the Nations. Giambattista Vico died in Naples in 1744.