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Giambattista Vico’s Principi di scienza nuova (1725, 1730, 1744) was intended to found an “ideal” and “eternal” model of human development. Vico emphasizes the importance of both philology and philosophy to his project, and attempts to break the mold of thinking about the history of humanity by exposing the preconceptions and misconceptions that arose from attempts to square “sacred history” with “profane” or non Judaeo-Christian history, creating a philosophy (or even a science) of mythology.