[Footnote 1: 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.] [Footnote 2: See for the whole question Croce, _Bibliografia vichiana,_ pp. 91-5.] [Footnote 3: In the _Giornali_ of Confuorto (MSS. in the library of the Neapolitan Historical Soc. xx. c. 22, vol. iii. f. 111) under August 1692, we find "certain civil persons were imprisoned in the prisons of St. Dominic by the tribunal of the Holy Office; among them the doctor Giacinto de Cristofaro, son of the doctor Bernardo; many others escaped, members of the Epicurean or Atheist sect, who believe the soul to perish with the body." This De Cristofaro is the famous Neapolitan mathematician and jurisconsult, for whom see F. Amodeo, _Vita matematica napoletana,_ part iii. (Naples, Giannini, 1905), pp. 31-44; he was Vico's friend. For other notices of the "Epicureans" at Naples at this time see Carducci, _Opere,_ vol. ii. pp. 235-6.] [Footnote 4: Letter of October 12, 1720.] [Footnote 5: _Ibid._] [Footnote 6: _Autobiografia,_ in _Opere,_ ed. Ferrari, 2nd ed. iv. p. 367.] [Footnote 7: The "subject" is therefore not the religious objections, which he regarded as a personal insult (_Riposta al Giornale dei letterati,_ in _Opp._ ii. p. 160).] II