[Footnote 1: By now (1913) the second volume has appeared: the third will appear next year.] III. BIOGRAPHY OF VICO By way of supplement to the autobiography, Villarosa collected information on Vico's last years and published it as a continuation of that work in his edition of the _Opuscoli,_ vol. i. (1818). This supplement, together with everything else that has been published in the way of documents or contemporary records of Vico, may be found collected in the fifth volume of the new edition of his works above mentioned (p. 307) and entitled: _L'Autobiografia, il carteggio e le poesie varie,_ ed. B. Croce (Bari, Laterza, 1911). IV. LITERATURE ON VICO There are only three monographs on Vico which may still be read with profit (that of Ferrari, _La Mente del Vico,_ admirable editor though he was, may best be consigned to merciful oblivion); they are as follows:-- 1. Carlo Cantoni, _G.B.V., studi critici e comparativi_ (Turin, Civelli, 1867). Cf. for certain reservations A. Faggi, in _Rivista filosofica italiana,_ vol. ix., 1906, pp. 593-606, and G. Gentile, in _Critica,_ vol. v., 1907, pp. 197-201. 2. Karl Werner, _G.B.V. als Philosoph und gelehrter Forscher,_ (Wien, Braumüller, 1881). Cf. _Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philos. Kritik,_ vol. lxxii., 1883, pp. 139-52. 3. Robert Flint, _Vico_ (Edinburgh and London, 1884). (Italian translation by F. Finocchietti, Florence, 1888). See what has been said of these above, p. 277. Of short and general studies the following are the best:-- 1. B. Spaventa, _G.B.V.,_ in _Prolusione è introduzione alle lezioni di filosofia_ (Naples, Vitale, 1862), pp. 83-102, reprinted under the title _La Filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni con la filosofia europea,_ ed. G. Gentile (Bari, Laterza, 1908); see pp. 111-35 of this reprint. 2. F. de Sanctis, _Storia della letteratura italiana_ (Naples, Morano, 1870; new ed. Croce, Bari, Laterza, 1912), vol. ii. pp. 342-62. 3. F. Fiorentino, _Lettere sopra la "Scienza Nuova"_ (Florence, 1865), reprinted in _Scritti vari_ (Naples, Morano, 1871), pp. 161-211. 4. E. Cauer, _G.B.V. und seine Stellung zur modernen Wissenschaft_ (in _Deutsches Museum,_ edited by R. Prutz and W. Woelfsohn, Leipzig, Hinrichs, year I, 1851, vol. i. pp. 249-65). For special points the following may be consulted:-- 1. F. A. Wolf, _G.B.V. über den Homer_ (in _Museum der Alterthumswissenschaft,_ Berlin, 1807, vol. ii. pp. 555-70). 2. J. K. von Orelli, _Vico und Niebuhr_ (in _Schweizerisches Museum,_ Aarau, vol. i. p. 184 _sqq._). 3. C. Iannelli, _Sulla natura e necessità della scienza delle cose e delle storie umane_ (Naples, Porcelli, 1818, and Milan, Fontana, 1832). 4. Emerico Amari, _Critica di una scienza della legislazione comparata_ (Genoa, Istituto dei Sordomuti, 1857). Cf. on this book K. Werner, _E.A. in seinem Verhältnis zu G.B.V._ (Wien, 1880; from the _Sitzungsberichte der phil.-histor. Klasse_ of the Imperial Academy of Vienna, vol. xcvi.).