Note 1 — Chapter XX

Since the preceding portions of this work are strictly confined to the analysis of Vico's philosophy and give no information as to his life and personal character, the reader will not be displeased to find in this appendix a lecture delivered by myself upon the latter subject before the Neapolitan Società di storia patria on April 14, 1909, and later written down and published in the Florence Voce(1st year, No. 43, October 7, 1909). I add for convenience of memory that Vico was born at Naples on June 23, 1668 (not 1670 as he says in his autobiography), and died on January 23 (not 20 as all his biographers say), 1744: the new edition of the Autobiografia, carteggio e poesie varie (Bari, Laterza, 1911), pp. 101, 123, 124.