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Vico

American  
[vik-oh, vee-koh, vee-kaw] / ˈvɪk oʊ, ˈvi koʊ, ˈvi kɔ /

noun

  1. Giovanni Battista 1668–1744, Italian philosopher and jurist.


Vico British  
/ ˈviːko, ˈvɪkəʊ /

noun

  1. Giovanni Battista (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista). 1668–1744, Italian philosopher. In Scienza Nuova (1721) he postulated that civilizations rise and fall in evolutionary cycles, making use of myths, poetry, and linguistics as historical evidence

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The Scot even has a special shrine in Vico San Nicola al Nilo, and a nickname - "McFratm".

From BBC • May 23, 2025

Vico is more used to face-to-face battling than the structured dance that’s easier to score.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2023

Actor Vico Ortiz, who is Hispanic and nonbinary, defended Latinx during a recent interview on NBC’s “Today,” calling the Spanish language “incredibly binary.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2021

When forerunners of Western democracy began emerging four hundred years ago, the philosophers Hobbes and Vico predicted they would inevitably lead to chaos and a return to all-powerful central control.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2017

Well, yes, he had been told that men from Vico had once ventured up into the woods to search for the gold.

From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)

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