Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Giambattista Vico
Born: June 23, 1668
Died: January 23, 1744 (aged 75)
Bio: Giambattista Vico was an Italian political philosopher and rhetorician, historian, and jurist, recognized as a great intellectual of the Age of Enlightenment.
Known for:
- The New Science of Giambattista Vico
- On the study methods of our time
- On humanistic education
- De nostri temporis studiorum ratione