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Philosophical Haiku

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)

by Terence Green

Our time is our own:
From birth to senility
Each age stands alone.

Giambattista Vico led an astoundingly uneventful life. Born in Naples, he was a sickly child and was consequently home-schooled – thereby depriving him of the excitement of going to school. After an uneventful time as a tutor, he was appointed to the uneventful chair of rhetoric at the University of Naples.

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