On the Study Methods of Our TimeGiambattista Vico's first original work of philosophy, On the Study Methods of Our Time (17089) takes up the contemporary "quarrel between the ancients and the moderns" and provides a highly interesting statement of the nature of humanistic education. This edition makes available again Elio Gianturco's superb 1965 English translation of a work generally regarded as the earliest statement by Vico of the fundamentals of his position. An important