About the Author

The Translator and Editor: Giorgio A. Pinton completed his education in Italy at the Aloysianum under the direction of the Society of Jesus (B.A. in philosophy). In the United States, he studied at The Hartford Seminary Foundation (Ph.D., in Renaissance philosophical and theological studies) and University of Hartford (M.A. in education). He has taught at the University of Connecticut, University of Hartford, and Trinity College. Pinton's other translations of Giambattista Vico's Latin writings are Universal Right (2000), The Art of Rhetoric (1996), and Inaugural Orations (1993).