 Many themes of these early works-language, wisdom, history, truth, causality, philology, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of ancient and modern learning-are incorporated into and receive their fullest treatment in Vico’s major work, The New Science, first published in 1725 (an edition subsequently known as the Scienza Nuova Prima or First New Science) and again in a second and largely rewritten version five years later. Vico published a third edition in 1744, which was later edited by Fausto Nicolini and appeared in 1928. Nicoloni is responsible for updating Vico’s punctuation and breaking the work up into its current structure of chapters, sections, and numbered paragraphs (1112 in all), not originally supplied by Vico himself, which have been reproduced in many though not all subsequent editions. Nicolini referred to his edition as the Scienza Nuova seconda-Second New Science (or simply The New Science), under which title the definitive version is known today. 