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GIaMbattIsta vIco
1668 – 1744, neapolitan
New Science
Translated by David Marsh with an
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
This astonishingly ambitious attempt to
provide a comprehensive science of all
human society by decoding the history,
mythology, and law of the ancient world
marked a turning-point in humanist
thinking as significant as Newton’s
contemporary revolution in physics.
560 pp. 978-0-14-043569-6 $17.00
See The Portable Enlightenment Reader.
“My imagination grows every time i read
Vico.” —j a m e s j o y c e
José GarcIa vIlla
1908 – 1997, american (b. philippines)
Doveglion
Collected Poems
Edited by John Edwin Cowen
Introduction by Luis H. Francia
Known as the “Pope of Greenwich
Village,” José Garcia Villa had a special
status as the only Asian poet among a
group of literary giants in 1940s New York
that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee
Williams, and a young Gore Vidal.
Doveglion (Villa’s pen name—for dove,
eagle, and lion) contains Villa’s collected
poetry, including rare and previously
unpublished material.
256 pp. 978-0-14-310535-0 $16.00
See John of Joinville.
GeoFFrey oF
vIllehardouIN
c. 1150 – c. 1218, French
vIrGIl
70 – 19 b.c., Roman
The Aeneid
Translated by Robert Fagles
Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox
With his award-winning translations
of Homer’s classic poems, Robert
Fagles gave new life to seminal works
of the Western canon. The Aeneid is his
latest achievement. Retaining all of the
gravitas and humanity of the original,
this powerful blend of poetry and myth
remains as relevant today as when it was
first written.
384 pp. 978-0-14-310513-8 $16.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
See The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid
boxed set.
vIrGIl
Generally regarded as ancient Rome’s greatest poet, Publius Vergilius Maro was
born of peasant stock near Mantua in 70 b.c. He was later sent to Rome to further
his education and there came under the influence of Epicureanism. The Georgics, a
superb expression of agricultural living, was composed during the final period of
the civil wars, and was dedicated to Maecenas, an important Roman official and
art patron. Virgil devoted the last years of his life to writing The Aeneid, the epic
story of the foundation of Rome and Virgil’s embodiment of Roman ideals. In the
last year of his life, 19 b.c., he journeyed to Greece to do research for a revision of
his epic.
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